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...disappearing. Cost-conscious Chemical Bank, for instance, gave away 550,000 calendars in its New York branches in 1982 but has printed less than half that number this year. Calendars are becoming personal statements. "There's no such thing as the family calendar any more," says Paul Gottlieb, president of Harry N. Abrams, which publishes seven calendars. "Everyone in the family has to have one, and they have to express individual tastes...
...first of Singer's stories, a fictional character named Dr. Gottlieb was the main character in "The Missing Line," and reasoned that there must be a rational explanation for even the most mysterious events...
Specifically, Gottlieb was able to logically explain how a line of text from his submitted analysis of Emanual Kant ended up in a news article on rape in an entirely different publication...
...said that 99 percent of all writers don't die of cancer or consumption [tuberculosis] but of printing mistakes?" Gottlieb quipped, after discovering that the misplacement was due to printer error...
...Gottlieb kept the secret from his colleagues, and Knopf treated the two novels no differently from those of any other new writer. With no author or sensational subject matter to promote, the result was "exactly what you'd expect," says Gottlieb: a handful of reviews and modest sales of just under 3,000 copies each. Hard-cover editions of Lessing novels usually sell between...