Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is at least one sign that Holocaust may do better than NBC executives expect. Earlier this month, Bantam brought out Green's paperback novelization of his shooting script, expecting the book to take off after the show went on the air. Much to the publisher's surprise, the novel hit a nerve with the public from the moment it appeared on the racks. Holocaust has already gone through eight printings (1.25 million copies) and is climbing on best seller lists. Not even Alex Haley's Roots had so wide a circulation before the airing...
Ever regret passing up that course in anthropology or art history? College on Your Own (Bantam; $6.95), a new 417-page anthology of college reading lists, offers a second chance to set out on all those roads not taken, in or out of college. Compiled by Gail Thain Parker, former president of Bennington College, and veteran Guidebook Author Gene R. Hawes, the book is an intellectual Whitman's Sampler. The reading lists have been approved by some 20 professors at leading colleges. Their fields range from such traditional disciplines as art history, English literature and mathematics to such newer...
Harry N. Abrams Inc., the New York art-book publisher, bought the English-language rights, insured the risk by bringing in Bantam, the paperback house, as a partner and placed 40,000 copies on the market last fall under the simple title Gnomes. The book has sold 250,000 copies at a prepublication price of $14.95, and Abrams expects it to sell another 150,000 copies at the full price of $17.50. Abrams struck a crock of gold. Gnomes, says President Andrew Stewart, "will have a significant impact on our profits in 1978. We'd have a good year...
Robert Triffin is a little man, a bantam really, but he is a giant in international finance. He looks out on the world with sad, soulful eyes, and while he often does not like what he sees, he usually has ideas for setting matters right. Among many other things, he is now propagating a plan for getting some green back into America's fading dollar...
...secretaries, journalists, publicists and others to get information about 50,000 such places across the country without having to go through local telephone exchanges, which, at best, provide only phone numbers, not addresses. The 2½-lb., 640-page tome, entitled the National Directory of Addresses and Telephone Numbers (Bantam; $9.95), lists the most wanted businesses, governments, services, trade associations, foundations and cultural organizations throughout the U.S. Its originator and editor, Stanley Greenfield, 52, director of the magazine-acquisition and development group at CBS, says it would take 2,000 phone books and other directories to supply all the data...