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...believes will be unproductive. He explains: "Some authors give this backward projection, and I tell the publisher they are only hurting themselves." Promotional travel usually gives the biggest boost to the biggest books. According to Esther Margolis, vice president for publicity of Bantam Books, the paperback sales of Peter Benchley's Jaws doubled, from 4 million to 8 million, after the author made the rounds...
Jimmy Buffett's last two albums have been a little more glossy than crustacean. Forebodings of trespassed territory emerge from the back cover of "Living and Dying in 3/4 Time"--it's 1974, right? and Jaws is more than an aching molar in the back of Peter Benchley's mouth, right? and a great white shark is slithering through clear green water on the back cover, about to swallow the credits and titles...
...Yorker, to which he contributed from 1932 to 1974 an unfailingly cheery, name-dropping Christmas greeting in verse. Buring the 1920s, '30s and '40s, the natty, expansively girthed Sullivan was a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a legendary luncheon club of such Manhattan wits as Robert Benchley and Borothy Parker...
...gadfly was stung in turn by Robert Benchley's parody of factual anthologies, Did You Know That- Ice is really a vegetable organism which forms on the surface of water to prevent it from freezing solid...
...Burnam is more utilitarian than American Credo and is barely winged by Benchley, it is because his compendium contains more truth and less malice than its predecessors. The Dictionary of Misinformation misleads only once -in its title. Information is all that the volume contains: enough to keep the canny reader collecting bar bets for the rest of the year. Stefan Kanfer