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Boston Globe political cartoonist Paul Szep calls him the Andrew Dice Clay of Massachusetts politics. Columnist George Will says he is the most interesting candidate in America this year. The specter of the 63-year-old bantam president of Boston University occupying the Governor's office terrifies many Bay State residents. But it exhilarates others, who believe a humorless political outsider performing triage on moribund state government can restore it to fiscal health. Either way, John Silber, who on June 2 ensured his place on the ballot for Massachusetts' September primary, makes incredible theater...
...Bantam; 422 pages...
...Brandeis, he spent ten years editing scholarly magazines and writing a string of financially unsuccessful books (among them: High Culture, about marijuana use, The Great American Man Shortage and a compendium of Jewish humor). Just as he resigned himself to "finding a real job," an editor friend at Bantam suggested Lee Iacocca. "Great! My kind of guy," said Novak, who had never heard of Iacocca...
...Bonfire of the Vanities (hard-cover copies sold: 750,000), rival publishing houses were rumored to be making offers of $15 million or more for his next book. Farrar, Straus, which had total revenues of only about $30 million last year, managed to assemble a deal with paperback publisher Bantam Books that paid Wolfe an estimated $5 million to $7 million. Says Roger Straus III, the publishing house's managing director: "It's a terrific strain on us. It's like a Monopoly game out there, and everybody has play money, but we're buying Park Place with real cash...
Time and Warner were moved to merge by the growing global consolidation in the communications business and by the many foreign acquisitions of American companies. In recent years, West Germany's Bertelsmann bought RCA Records and the Doubleday and Bantam Books publishing houses; Britain's Robert Maxwell took over Macmillan publishers; Japan's Sony acquired CBS Records; and Australian-born Murdoch (now a U.S. citizen) accumulated newspapers, magazines, a movie studio and a TV network. Said Time's Munro: "We see Maxwell, Murdoch, Bertelsmann and Sony coming into our market and raising hell, and we see this ((merger...