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Marriage Revealed. Marianne Means, 42, syndicated Hearst Washington columnist who was a favorite White House correspondent of both J.F.K. and L.B.J.; and Warren Weaver Jr., 54, who covers Congress and national politics for the New York Times; she for the third time, he for the second; on Feb. 10, in Washington...
CRIME DOESN'T PAY. At least that's what the post-Watergate flurry of indictments, CIA bugs hidden in chandeliers, and James Q. Wilson seem to be saying. And everyone involved in the Patty Hearst case except F. Lee Bailey would agree. But an alternative tradition of the likeable, triumphant crook has evolved in Hollywood, and Ted Kotcheff's Fun with Dick and Jane is an heir to this genre...
...announcing that the nation's banks, closed by his order, would begin reopening the next day. The reaction was electrifying-and overwhelmingly positive. Walter Lippmann declared: "The nation, which had lost confidence in everything and everybody, has regained confidence in the Government and in itself." Said William Randolph Hearst: "I guess at your next election we will make it unanimous...
...venture, San Antonio's morning Express and the afternoon News, Murdoch again showed little interest in politics. Neither paper staffed the state or national political conventions, although each sends sportswriters as far away as Seattle to follow the Spurs, the city's pro basketball team. Pitting the News against Hearst's Light, Murdoch began a circulation war that increased his paper's sales by 18,000, to 78,000, while his rivals' dropped slightly, to 125,000. The fight brought out the worst in both publications. After turning the News front page into a graphic jungle of black boxes...
...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...