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...Hampshire primary! Not yet! Those images of Jimmy and Scoop, Mo and Sarge, Ronnie and Jerry cluttering the television screens and the front pages have barely begun to fade. And here they are, by any measure a full year too soon, about to assault us once again. So brace yourself for those film clips of frigid handshakes at the gates of bleak factories, with candidates snorting white steam from mouths and nostrils, of flinty, numb voters nodding vacantly at vacant campaign promises; of parka-encased reporters up to their knees in snow, watching and waiting in vain for a phrase...
FIELDER'S CHOICE Edited by Jerome Holtzman Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 395 pages...
Legal Times of Washington, launched by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, the publishing conglomerate, is the oldest (eight months) and most specialized. The weekly drops names aplenty in a gossipy column called Inadmissible, but its first concern is keeping tabs on the capital's regulatory maze and the revolving door that spins lawyers between the public and private sectors. "We like to think we are helping lawyers in their work," says Managing Editor David Beckwith, 36, a lawyer and former TIME law writer. "The other publications are into national trends and lighter stuff." Legal Times 'circulation is small (currently...
...best tradition of damnum absque injuria, American Lawyer's first issue twits the National Law Journal for omitting Harcourt Brace's legal seminars from its calendar of events, and Legal Times' Feb. 5 issue faults Takeover Specialist Joseph Flom, who is chairman of the Journal's board of editors, for collecting retainers "for doing nothing." Says former Federal Trade Commission Executive Director Basil Mezines, a Washington lawyer who reads them: "I just love these gossip sheets−as long as they don't write about...