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Last year, with the memory of Amber's sales still green in her publisher's bank account, Kathleen asked a whopping $50,000 advance for her second novel, Star Money. The publisher (Macmillan) regretfully declined. So did another big publishing house. Kathleen finally talked Ap-pleton-Century-Crofts into forking over the huge advance...
...crowded ballroom of St. Louis' Statler Hotel one day last week, a heavyset, greying woman rose at the speakers' table, eyed her luncheon audience ap-praisingly through horn-rimmed glasses and began: "You're not going to like anything I say, but I don't care, so long as you listen...
Until now, the HAA has been budgeted on a self-sufficient basis. In the past three years, this has resulted in a $326,000 deficit. Now, according to the AP story, the University's "athletics are going to be put on a footing similar to its educational activities. That, Bingham hopes, will in time ease up the overpowering pressure for big games, big victories, and big gate receipts...
Other parts of the interview, which was sent over the AP national wire at 5:45 p.m. yesterday, quoted Bingham on the current football situation in the Ivy League. He was reported as saying that in the Ivy League Harvard was cutting out Pennsylvania--"We cannot compete against their State scholarships...
...last week Publisher Williams, 59, had about tripled Southern Farmer's circulation to 1,052,821, only a furrow's width behind the South's biggest farm publications, the Southern Agriculturist (circ. 1,103,034) and the Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,080,575),-but fields ap&rt in journalistic approach. Instead of teMing his readers how to farm, Williams gives them advice on economic matters and something to think about while farming. He crusades against such things as "the fertilizer combine and trusts" and the poll tax, runs pieces on housing, credit and taxes...