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Last year Bantam Books President Oscar Dystel spread a little gloom among his colleagues when he cautioned that net unit sales?the actual number of. paperback books sold?have remained fairly static since 1973, William R. Grose, editor in chief of Dell, takes a grimmer view. "I used to think there was a ceiling on paperback rights. Now I don't know. The consumer is the one who pays for all this nonsense, and the consumer doesn't seem to have balked. Everyone you talk to will say it's an unhealthy situation, but no one knows what...
Though Sundic claimed later that his story was based wholly on "my own guess and my own opinion," it seemed oddly in tune with dispatches out of Moscow by Western newsmen. In the view of "senior Western diplomats," reported New York Times Moscow Correspondent Peter Grose, North Viet Nam has become unsure of Red Chinese stability, is edging reluctantly into Moscow's sphere of influence...
...Thomas Sullivan as Miles is so good an actor, looks so angelic, and sounds so pure, that his scenes are very moving even though we often have to strain to hear. His song in the schoolroom is a weird blending of dewy innocence and dark corruption. Carolyn Stouffer, Mrs. Grose the housekeeper, tends to be shrill, and her diction is sometimes muddy, in contrast to the rest of the cast. Carlotte Wilsen, as the ghostly Miss Jessel can be both terrifying, when she calls to Flora, and tragic, in her beautiful schoolroom song...
...recently returned from the Chinese mainland, T. Kenneth Young Jr. former U.S. ambassador to Thailand, Professor John K. Fairbank, director of the East Asia Research Center at Harvard, Hans J. Morgenthau, professor of political science and modern history at the Univ, of Chicago, and N.Y. Times Vietnam correspondent Peter Grose...
...Olney "Art" Croasdale, a scion of the varsity track team, outpointed fellow Winthrop House member David Grose-close for the unlimited weight class title. After easily conquering two other contenders in his rise to the finals, Croasdale kept Groseclose in a pinning hold for a full six seconds, but not tightly enough to make the victory immediate...