Word: harper
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When TV Actress Valerie Harper and Lorimar Productions sued each other last year, it looked as if the case might drag on until 1992 before it even went to trial. After all, the Los Angeles court system is clogged with 150,000 new civil cases a year. But, instead, the mutual breach-of-contract suits -- a fallout from Harper's departure last summer from the NBC series Valerie -- went to trial together last week. The shortcut? With the blessings of the state court, both sides got together and hired a private judge. "I'm very happy to have...
...China Morning Post in Hong Kong. While he has sold the New York Post and the Chicago Sun-Times, he still owns the Boston Herald and the San Antonio Express-News. He has interests in ten book publishers, including Glasgow's William Collins & Sons and New York City's Harper & Row. His 20th Century Fox movie studio and six independent TV stations in the U.S. have served as the launching pad for his new Fox Television network. In Europe his Sky Channel, a satellite broadcasting service for cable-TV viewers, reaches 13.3 million homes in 22 countries...
...pulp: Dashiell Hammett's Woman in the Dark (Knopf; 96 pages; $15.95), overpriced and oversold as a "novel," but compelling on its terms as a sketchbook romance between two losers who share a fierce sense of their own integrity. Other notable reprints include Michael Gilbert's Young Petrella (Harper & Row; 222 pages; $15.95), a collection of magazine stories from the 1950s and '60s that display his trademark Scotland Yard detective with a deadpan precision of mood worthy of Simenon, and A Double Life (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $17.95), short gothic chillers by Louisa May Alcott...
SPENCE + LILA by Bobbie Ann Mason (Harper & Row; $12.95). The author of Shiloh and Other Stories offers up a love story about a Kentucky farmer and his ailing wife so pure and enduring that it might have been carved with a jackknife...
OSCAR AND LUCINDA by Peter Carey (Harper & Row; $18.95). An Australian novelist turns in a shimmering fantasy of gambling and glassmaking, held together by the struts of 19th century history and the mullions of painstaking detail...