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THIRTY years later, the blurb in the Pine Bluff, Ark., high school yearbook under the picture of the pretty blonde remains apt. Letting go after the march on Washington, Martha Mitchell told a television interviewer: "As my husband has said many times, some of the liberals in this country, he'd like to take them and change them for Russian Communists." Since Martha Mitchell's husband is the Attorney General of the U.S., the remark caused a certain furor. John Mitchell, at a press conference, set the record straight: "If you will transpose the word 'liberal...
...catalogue; they include works by a predictable pantheon of authors-Buckminster Fuller, Carl Jung, John Cage, Arthur Koestler-and some not so predictable. Particularly recommended are Cosmic View, a 1957 children's book by Dutch Schoolmaster Kees Boeke ("You advance in and out through the universe," says the blurb, "changing scale by a factor of ten") and Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Euell Gibbons' foraging guide to edible wild plants. There are "pop enlightenment" texts on yoga, sense relaxation, self-hypnosis and psycho-cybernetics. Among the catalogue's biggest sellers is The Survival Book by Nesbitt, Pond...
...develops that not only was there such a song on Celebrations for a Grey Day, an Eastern sounding instrumental, but that Farina and Pynchon were roommates and best friends at Cornell. Pynchon turns up not only in the blurb to Farina's novel, but also as a character in a piece in the new Farina book, an article entitled "The Monterey Fair," one of the most interesting in the book. Written for Mademosielle, strangely enough, it is the story of a trip to Monterey the day before Dick's and Mimi's wedding, at which Pynchon was best...
...group calling itself Ruben & the Jets (which is really Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention) has cut an album which re-creates the sounds of the '50s. Says the album's liner blurb: "This is an album of greasy love songs and cretin simplicity. We made it because we really like this kind of music...
...month, the book has already sold more than 20,000 copies (at $5.95 apiece) and has gone into a third printing, thanks mainly to an outrageous promotion campaign featuring photographs of the heroine's conquests, each posed for by one of the authors. ("Meet Melvin Corby" reads the blurb next to Aronson's picture, "faithful, frustrated, he canceled his men's magazines when Naked Came the Stranger.") Paperback rights have been sold to Dell for a $37,500 minimum (escalating to a possible $127,500 depending on hard-cover sales), and Stuart reports no fewer than...