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...DUKE OF DECEPTION: MEMORIES OF MY FATHER by Geoffrey Wolff; Random House; 275 pages...
Author Geoffrey Wolff tried to capture his own outlandish grifter of a parent in his first novel, Bad Debts (1969). In The Duke of Deception he tries again, this time discarding fiction and giving the facts a chance. They are colorful but not, at first glance, terribly consequential. Arthur Samuels Wolff, nicknamed Duke for his noble pretensions, was neither famous nor accomplished, except at the art of running up unpaid bills, and even that skill deserted him at the end. To Geoffrey and his younger brother Toby, their father's life was a matter of putting on heirs...
...sold 65; last year 125; this year it expects to sell 1,000. Cable-TV gear accounted for 75% of the company's 1978 sales of $94 million. Jerrold Electronics in January booked three tunes as many orders for decoder boxes and other cable equipment BRIAN R. WOLFF as ft did in the whole fourth quarter last year. Its sales of cable gear have multiplied 4½ times since...
Taking note of this right-left difference, Psychologist Werner Wolff of Columbia University suggested in the 1940s that the right side is the "public" face, and the left the "private," registering emotions that are not intended to be conveyed. Yet this strategy of "hiding" unacceptable emotions on the left side of the face could be effective only if the public side had far more impact on the viewer. Wolff found this to be so; after studying the faces of others, subjects in his experiments noted that the right side of the face looked more like the whole face than...
Edward L. Keenan '57, dean of GSAS, said last night that at the recommendation of the Wolff report on the GSAS in 1969, the school has been cutting enrollment to better serve each student. This year's entering class is roughly half the size of the class ten years...