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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...
...Life: Rabid SDS'ers kidnap Mary Handlin: Oscar, heartbroken, declared. "I may never publish again." Nostalgia hits the bestseller lists with "A Pictorial History of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities" and "Richard Herrnstein Studies the Bobbsey Twins...
Besides, Scorpio had been an Aquarius rooter from the start. Although he had the same affectionately ambiguous feelings toward him that he once held for the Brooklyn Dodgers, he followed Aquarius' erratic career with a kid brother's awe and expectation. To go directly from The Bobbsey Twins to The Naked and the Dead was not an experience one overcame easily...