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...institutions to offer accounts that paid higher interest. All this was bad news for borrowers; since banks and savings and loans suddenly had to pay much more for deposits), they had to charge much more for loans. Those 8% mortgages and car loans became as outdated as Ozzie and Harriet...
...been printed, shipped and readied for sale. And that is not all. Three look-alike companions are also hot off the presses and speeding toward dealers: the complete poetry and prose of Walt Whitman (1819-92), the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) and three novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). They will soon be available in U.S. bookstores, at $25 apiece...
...somehow become selfsupporting? Answers are several years away. In the meantime, readers can watch Melville develop into the author of Moby Dick and observe Whitman tinkering with and expanding Leaves of Grass. All of Hawthorne's eerie, ambiguous short fiction can be tucked into a purse or briefcase. Harriet Beecher Stowe never looked better, nor did Uncle Tom's Cabin, the melodramatic novel that abetted a war. That is not a bad beginning for a publishing project resting on a slim but worthwhile hope: that the writers who helped define this nation can some day be given...
...Shea, Jr. gets involved in the same sort of shady dealing that did in Shea, Sr., and the violent crimes of the client return to haunt the lawyer. Through the convoluted plot, threads weave and re-weave until every action seems to touch every character, from poor Shea to Harriet Dawson, a sympathetic child-murderer. Fate hangs over everyone's life like the faith the protagonist constantly tries to deny...
...DIED. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, 89, children's book author of many of the gee-whiz adventures in series like Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift and the Bobbsey Twins; in Pottersville, N.J. Writing under such names as Carolyn Keene, Franklin W Dixon, Victor W. Appleton and Laura Lee Hope, Adams spun out more than 200 tales during a 52-year career. Adams was one of several writers who worked for the juvenile series' controlling corporation, the Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded by her father Edward more than 70 years...