Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hectares and liters. Some conversions, though, will be learned more quickly than others: getting a traffic ticket for driving 50 miles per hour in a 50 kilometer-per-hour zone will probably help drivers adjust to the new system. And a few changes will be happy ones. Leon Jaroff, editor of the Science and Medicine sections, reminds us that "if your weight is 166 lbs., the scale will read only 76 kilograms. That somehow makes it less disturbing...
...editor asked me, on the basis of my coverage of the CHUL meetings, to write a long feature on the housing issue to appear during the first week of the second semester. After explaining the various alternatives and positions, I made a prediction: that CHUL would vote for a uniform system of three-year Houses, and would make certain adjustments in the sex ratio of the Quad Houses. My editor, older and bureaucratically wiser, advised me last February that committees like CHUL generally find adequate solace in the status quo, and end up voting for it. As it turned...
...Avon Ladies," as they are known in the trade, who have struck the richest vein. In 1971 Editor Nancy Coffey of Hearst's Avon Books found in her "slush pile" of unsolicited manuscripts an interminable 800-page tome about love in the midst of the American Revolution by a 35-year-old New Jersey housewife named Kathleen E. Woodiwiss. Published in 1972 as The Flame and the Flower, it has sold an astounding 2,348,000 copies -more than enough to convince Avon executives that millions of women readers were yearning for "frequent long vacations from the 20th century...
Rough Diamond. Avon has supplied them. In addition to Author Woodiwiss, Editor Coffey has discovered Laurie McBain, a 26-year-old Smith graduate whose 428-page Devil's Desire has sold 1,268,000 copies, and Joyce Verrette, a former NBC secretary whose 475-page Dawn of Desire has sold 150,000 more than that. But the biggest discovery was made late in 1973 when a rough diamond as big as the Ritz dropped through Avon's transom...
Rosemary Rogers, a fortyish typist and mother of four from Fairfield, Calif., shipped Editor Coffey the manuscript of a 636-page romantic extravaganza called Sweet Savage Love. The first novel she had ever submitted for publication, it became the first of four swashbuckling herstoricals that have moved more than 10 million copies off the racks, made Rogers one of the world's bestselling authors, with a million-dollar annual income, and opened to hordes of escapists some wild new terrain...