Word: bobbsey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senate side, the budget panel will have a new chief, Democrat Lawton Chiles of Florida. Chiles is no stranger to the budget wars. In years past he worked so closely with the former Republican budget chairman, Pete Domenici of New Mexico, that the two men became known as the Bobbsey Twins. In the process, Chiles earned a reputation as a sincere and often effective budget cutter...
Conroy tempts fate and the limits of his talent when he plays at being William Styron, John Irving and perhaps even Mark Twain, if Dr. Lowenstein's couch is considered as a raft on which Jew and Gentile drift toward enlightenment. There is also a reckless blend of Bobbsey Twins adventure and revenge fantasies usually associated with drive-in-movie horror festivals. Would you believe that after Lila, Savannah and Tom are raped by three escaped convicts, the family's pet Bengal tiger bursts in and rips the criminals into small pieces? Would you believe that no one finds...
DIED. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, 89, children's book author of many of the gee-whiz adventures in series like Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and the Bobbsey Twins; in Pottersville, N.J. Writing under such names as Carolyn Keene, Franklin W Dixon, Victor W. Appleton and Laura Lee Hope, Adams spun out more than 200 tales during a 52-year career. Adams was one of several writers who worked for the juvenile series' controlling corporation, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded by her father Edward more than 70 years...
Great Scott! said Tom swiftly. He has been saying it for almost 80 years. So have the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, the Bobbsey Twins and the Dana Girls. If they sometimes sounded alike, the resemblance was purely deliberate-they were all created by one Edward Stratemeyer, who died in 1930. Under more than a hundred pseudonyms, Stratemeyer and his ghostwriting syndicate produced thousands of books and millions of sales. But wait! expostulated the heirs and assignees. More than one publisher was interested in the burgeoning royalties that still total millions per year...
...Simon & Schuster, which hopes to make millions by publishing new paperback adventures of the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and the Bobbsey Twins, written by the syndicate under the direction of Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Adams, 87. Not fair! expostulated Grosset, legally. Yes it is! countered...