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...Aristophanic comedies, male characters were endowed with huge prop phalli with which they thwacked each other. Early forms of the Kabuki theater were closed down by the shogun in 17th century Japan for encouraging prostitution and inciting lewd homosexual byplay on and off stage. Italy's commedia dell'arte was frequently obscene in word and gesture...
...publishers, American Heritage Publishing Co. and Houghton Mifflin Co., expect to move another 610,000 copies this year. Last week, capping one of the most successful book promotions in history, they sold the paperback rights to Dell Publishing Co. for $750,000, an exceptionally large soft-cover advance. The paperback edition will cost 75? and contain 55,000 words, compared with 155,000 in the hardcover dictionary, which sells for $7.95 in plain covers and $12.50 in deluxe binding...
...Emotionally, I'm sure Arthur is very pleased with this result," said former U.S. Davis Cup Captain Donald Dell, after a seven-nation committee in London banned racist South Africa from this year's Davis Cup competition. The last straw, apparently, was the government's recent refusal to grant black Tennis Star Arthur Ashe a visa to play in South African tournaments. In Melbourne, Australia, the quiet pro from Richmond termed the decision "an empty victory, from which I will get about five minutes' emotional satisfaction...
...added: "The people of Mississippi can only expect to be skinned by these companies." Last week a grand jury at Pascagoula handed in another critical report. Most of the controversy centers around Commission Member Erskine Wells, a lawyer whose firm represents many insurance firms, and State Insurance Commissioner Walter Dell Davis, an ex-officio member of the commission, who has been accused of being too cozy with insurers. In the wake of the storm, the commission hastily approved a 50% rate increase along the Gulf. Last week public outcry and political pressure prompted the commission to postpone the rate rise...
...campaign featuring photographs of the heroine's conquests, each posed for by one of the authors. ("Meet Melvin Corby" reads the blurb next to Aronson's picture, "faithful, frustrated, he canceled his men's magazines when Naked Came the Stranger.") Paperback rights have been sold to Dell for a $37,500 minimum (escalating to a possible $127,500 depending on hard-cover sales), and Stuart reports no fewer than 23 producers and directors interested in the film rights...