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...sprinters Linda Suhs of Springfield, Ill., Stacey Moran of New City, N.Y., and Janice Sweetser of Camp LeJeune, N.C., divers Lisa Pierce of Bay Village, Ohio and Jenny Greene of Darien, Conn., breaststroker Lani Nelson of Fairfax, Virg., backstroker Karen Schneider of Weston, Conn. and middle-distance freestyler Ronda Applebaum of Newton Center, Mass...
...World According Le Beaver. Irwyn Applebaum captures the essence of the show for its millions of undying fans fawning tributes to television shows tend to be unsatisfying because there usually is little the author can add-we've seen all the same shows, the rest of us just didn't bother to take notes. But Applebaum does a much better than average job by letting the show do most of the talking. The best part of the book is the central section which consists of dialogue vignettes from the show's 234 episodes...
...true fanatic, the last third of the book consists of plot summaries of all the shows. Applebaum spices up what might otherwise be a dry catalogue by including collections of Beaverisms on topics like girls, brothers and dogs. For example, what does Beaver's father do for a living. We know he drives to the office every day, prepares a lot of reports, and occasionally goes on a business trip, but the show never exactly tells us who signs old Ward's paychecks...
...Mamas. Bantam, Ballantine and Pocket Books, three major mass-market houses, shortcut the hard-cover publishers with their own original titles. Jerzy Kosinski's just published Pinball is appearing as a Bantam Papa (5,000), Mama (150,000), with babies yet to be determined. Says Stuart Applebaum, director of publicity for Bantam: "For many people in their 20s and 30s, the quality trade paperback has become their hardback." Literary Agent Scott Meredith sees the flagging economy as the reason. Says he: "Few people today can walk into a store and casually buy ten books." Industry experts predict that...
...Applebaum: I hear the new commander is real straight-laced...