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Paperback Loophole. Before John Le Carre's The Spy Who Came In from the Cold hit the bestseller lists and stuck, the right to reprint it was worth only $25,000 to Dell Publishing Co. Last month, with Le Carre's ability to sell no longer in doubt, Dell doled out a thumping $400,000 to republish his new spy story, The Looking-Glass War, which will come out in hard cover this fall...
...reprint profits that the old established hard-cover houses cannot possibly match. Over the course of a year, Coward-McCann managed to peddle 250,000 hard-cover copies of Le Carre's Spy, at $4.50 a copy, for a very respectable gross of nearly $1,250,000. But Dell's 750 pocket edition sold 3,000,000 copies in just three weeks-for a gross...
Missing Disciplines. Dell's new hardcover imprint, called Delacorte, lured James Jones away from Scribners, which had published his first four books. Jones's contract assures him $800,000 for rights to his next three books, despite the fact that Jones is only halfway through the first. Dell also signed Irwin Shaw by offering him 100% of the reprint royalties. Pocket Books created Trident Press for the sole purpose of encouraging Harold (The Carpetbaggers) Robbins to go AWOL from Knopf...
...stranded passengers, who were finally evacuated safely. In California, gale winds whipped bridges off their foundations and stranded hundreds of motorists on the Red wood Highway. Almost every town along the Eel River, in the northwestern corner of the state, was under water. City officials in Rio Dell put out orders to knock down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole population fled to the high-ground school auditorium. In other towns, the rampaging waters were too swift even...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Blending song and satire, commedia dell' arte garb and Brechtian notions, Joan Littlewood and her "thinking clowns" effectively depict the foolishness and ironies of the 1914-18 war. FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is a nostalgic folk-musical version of Sholom Aleichem's tales of life in czarist Russia and Aleichem's gentle dairyman, Tevye, brought to life by Zero Mostel's larger-than-life interpretation...