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The article features artists who use paper as a medium of art in New York City. Among them are Kirsten Hassenfeld, Maki Tamura and Jane South, who take paper in new directions by cutting, folding and layering the medium naturally and architecturally. The artists noted that they prefer to use paper because of its fragility. Leslie Jones of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art said that paper has stigma attached to it that cannot be compared with other works of art.

The article provides information on artist Ron Bayford. He was born on November 16, 1927 in London, England and was once a telephone operator at the General Post Office and director of the Caravan Gallery in New York. He prefers soft papers like French Canson papers, American Strathmore drawing papers, and the English George Rowney absorbent watercolor paper with a slight gray cast and buttery texture. A description of some of his works is provided.

The article focuses on a series of events celebrating the opening of an exhibition of paper and paperboard objects organized by the Museum of Contemporary Crafts and the Container Corp. of America in New York City. The first event is a preview at the museum. A paper concert is held at the Time and Life Building. "A Street Event" to demonstrate the efficacy of soluble paper.

The article reports that many New York City dealers in New York were unable to sell all the paper they had collected from their paper collection campaign in August 1942 that they were forced to burn their surplus under the sponsorship of the Department of Sanitation due to increasing storage rates.

The article discusses shredded paper manufactured by the Downtown Alliance. Executive Steven Josefsberg delivered one-half ton of shredded paper to Broadway Avenue in New York City in preparation for a parade celebrating the New York Yankees’ victory in Major League Baseball’s World Series. Twenty of thirty-two buildings along the parade route accepted free paper from the Alliance.

The article discusses the author's experience of witnessing the official debut of the paper sari at the Lotos Club in New York City. A certain amount of time was spent in admiring the baroque façade of the club, as well as reading its New York Community Trust plaque. The author had some time to survey the party and be introduced to several people by a friend. Performer Susan Hoffman was one of the several people introduced to the author.

Announces the donation of a grant from the National Park Service's National Center for Preservation Technology and Training to the Barbara Goldsmith Conservation Laboratory of the New York Public Library's Research Libraries. Plans to use the money toward the creation of two multimedia resources to train people in the conservation of paper artifacts and manuscripts; Distribution of the materials in multiple formats; Types of subjects the resources will depict.

The author relates his experience of watching a parade of the baseball team New York Yankees in Broadway, New York City. He named the event as a ticker-tape parade because of the various kinds of papers that were thrown in the sky including letter heads and pages from a telephone book. After the trucks of the Yankees have passed, 4 tank trucks of Sanitation Department came to spray water on the papers and a group of sweeping machines churned these into paper mâché.

The article reports on Hearst Corp., located in New York, which has implemented a new target zero-waste policy. The media conglomerate's new policy involves composting and recycling initiatives that will recognize Hearst's Manhattan headquarters as the first office towers to implement an aggressive diversion program. The policy requires the collection of organic waste coming from the towers' kitchens, cafeterias, and executive dining facility. The company also included the recovery program for paper, metals, glass, and plastics in the zero-waste program.

Reports the fix scheduling of XML-based market information standards beta testing in New York, New York. Design of the market data definition language (MDDL); Creation of the document-type definition and defining domains and descriptor structure for MDDL; Significance of a white paper to define MDDL.