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...probably near the top end of the scale. Any feature that does not eventually attract about 25 clients-at an average of $10 a week-is thought to be not worth the effort. Doonesbury is said to net about $200,000 for Artist Garry Trudeau, and columnists like Buchwald and Anderson are probably in the same league...
...easy for young artists and writers to break into the game. Field Syndicate examines about 2,000 new comic strips a year, but adopts only one of them every two or three years. Some budding Buchwalds and Trudeaus have tried to syndicate themselves. Former Buchwald Partner Robert Yoakum wrote his own humor column for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate from 1972 to 1975; since then he has successfully sold it on his own-to twice as many newspapers. But few would-be Yoakums can afford the start-up costs that technology now demands; a major syndicate transmits a feature instantaneously...
...Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island have offered to take them under their banner. Meanwhile, some of the summer crowd are lobbying for total independence. Says Opera Singer Beverly Sills: "If we do secede, I'm putting in my bid for Minister of Culture." Columnist Art Buchwald, another summer resident, says that as the new nation of Martha's Tucket, "We could get foreign aid." What to do with it? Answers...
Columnist Art Buchwald is in favor of the sport, especially the two-cheek variation he learned in Paris. Says...
...year on Government programs had not been spent. Baffled by the shortfall, Office of Management and Budget officials double-checked their figures and found that $2.5 billion of it was due mainly to accounting quirks That still left $9 billion in unused money and provided ammunition for Columnist Art Buchwald. Plotkin, his fictional, frazzled OMB bureaucrat, worries about how to get rid of the excess money and asks, "Have you ever tried to spend a billion dollars in two months...