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...extend her story. But Mitchell's heirs were concerned because the book's copyright was due to expire in 2011, leaving the story unprotected. Thus they reluctantly agreed to let Ripley, whose own "big, fat, serious historicals" (Charleston, New Orleans Legacy) have fared well on the moonlight-and- magnolia circuit, write a sequel. Last week, with two chapters of the new GWTW written, major publishers kicked off a brisk bidding war. The hardcover rights could fetch as much as $6 million...
...Harvard women's tennis team is the Rodney Dangerfield of the national collegiate circuit. It keeps winning, but no one has given the Crimson its deserved recognition...
Last week the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington ruled that the amendment was unconstitutional since it was aimed only at Murdoch. But the ruling came too late for Murdoch to hang on to the Post. Real Estate Tycoon Peter Kalikow bought the paper last month for $37 million...
...hunt for a house began about three years ago, when Mrs. Reagan's friends Betsy Bloomingdale and Marion Jorgensen began a surreptitious search in the area. But word got around the real estate circuit, and the women were besieged by eager brokers. When a social acquaintance of Jorgensen's telephoned her to say that her elderly, recently widowed niece might want to part with her St. Cloud home, Jorgensen and Bloomingdale found what they -- and the Reagans -- had been looking for. In August 1986, Wall Management quietly bought the house and leased it back to the widow, who has since...
...Griffin, the bid for Resorts is merely his latest exercise in empire building. The move follows by three months his acquisition of the Beverly Hilton, for which he paid $100.2 million. Among Griffin's other properties are four radio stations in New York and Connecticut and a national closed-circuit television system that broadcasts horse and dog races onto screens at tracks and betting parlors. His large California real estate holdings include a $20 million home and a 157-acre site on the highest spot in Beverly Hills, where he is building a mansion. He continues to run Merv Griffin...