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...Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Bombeck...
...Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, Tarnower& Baker (1) 2. Restoring the American Dream, Ringer (2) 3. Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Bombeck (5) 4. The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, Pritikin with McGrady (3) 5. The Right Stuff, Wolfe (6) 6. How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Ruff (4) 7. Cruel Shoes, Martin (7) 8. Energy Future, edited by Stobaugh & Yergin 9. Serpentine, Thompson 10. The Medusa and the Snail, Thomas...
...Aunt Erma's Cope Book, Bombeck...
Everyone should be as un-copable as Erma Bombeck, the frumpy suburban housewife who masquerades as a success ful syndicated columnist and morning-show television commentator about things frivolous and familiar. Two months before publication, Bombeck's latest volume, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, has one of the biggest advance runs in publishing history: 700,000 copies in two printings, of which 500,000 have been snapped up by bookstores. If the huge press run does not sell, Aunt Erma has a remedy. Says she: "Either we're going to have a lot of doorstops around...
...American Academy of Humor Columnists, a nonpartisan, nonprofit and otherwise nonexistent organization that hands out awards to each member and encourages the exchange of funny memos. "If we put as much effort into our columns as we have into our correspondence, we'd all be millionaires," says Erma Bombeck, 52, whose madcap suburban comedies are syndicated to 800 newspapers, and who may be a millionaire anyway...