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...about photography, traveling the country shooting pictures for 4% years. At 21, he made his first short subject, three years later his first fictional feature-very low budget. He also audited Columbia University courses conducted by the likes of Lionel Trilling and Mark Van Doren, and became a tireless reader with catholic tastes. "I can become interested in anything," he says. "Delving into a subject, discovering facts and details-I find that easy and pleasurable...
...Durants' Procrustean formula. Merely to introduce Bonaparte into destiny's pages requires a recapitulation of the entire French Revolution. The Durants compress that cataclysm to 152 pages-an entertaining but misshapen account. The causes of the infamous Terror are summed up in a brief section, leaving the reader reeling under a scattershot assault of dates and statistics. The guillotine devours French leaders at such a bewildering pace that the list of names often reads like a body count, not a narrative. Later chapters pondering the fate of other European nations influenced by Bonaparte's power - England, Italy...
...government wants to prohibit Canadian companies from deducting, as a business expense, the cost of buying advertising space in the Canadian editions of Reader's Digest and TIME. The two magazines, which are published in separate editions for Canadian readers, were exempted from a 1965 law that ended the tax-deductibility privilege for foreign-owned magazines. Since Canada's basic tax rate on corporate profits will be 46% in 1976, the new law would have the effect of almost doubling the cost of advertising in TIME Canada and the Canadian Reader's Digest. The two publications together...
...TIME Canada and Reader's Digest to qualify as Canadian magazines under the new bill, and thus afford advertisers the advantage of a tax deduction, they would have to be 75% Canadian-owned, show editorial content "substantially" different from their parent editions, and demonstrate that their editorial control is in the hands of Canadians. Time Inc. has been prepared to meet the 75% ownership rule, and the company last spring produced a sample issue of a newsmagazine that devoted 41% of its space to Canadian news, instead of the present 12% to 15%. But in October, newly named Minister...
...Reader's Digest Association which sold one-third of its Canadian operation in 1968 has steadfastly refused to meet the 75% ownership rule. The firm also refuses to change the editorial content of its Canadian edition or to give effective editorial control to Canadians. As E. Paul Zimmerman, president of the Reader's Digest Association (Canada) Ltd., said last week: "We cannot survive under the present terms of Bill C-58, and we must plan for winding up our operations as soon as possible...