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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another paperback bestseller, The Second Official I Hate Cats Book (Holt Rinehart Winston; $3.95), makes no pretense whatever of liking Felis. The animals pictured by Cartoonist Skip Morrow are uniformly fat and dumb-and alive-and they get a variety of comeuppances in ways that manage to be amiably humorous. The two I Hate books have 575,000 copies in print. They too have stirred a barrage of virulently pro-feline protest mail...
Phelps, a writer in Rockville Centre, N.Y., spent three years sifting through thousands of fairy and folk tales looking for brave and clever heroines. She found enough for two books: Tatterhood and Other Tales (The Feminist Press; 1978) and her just published The Maid of the North (Holt, Rinehart & Winston). Here the fables are turned: women rescue men, outwit demons and fight like Cossacks. Tatterhood, named for her ragged, mud-stained clothes, batters a gang of wicked trolls and recaptures the severed head of her sister. An old Japanese woman, paddling along a stream, thinks quickly when pursuing monsters suck...
...Holt spent the remainder of the morning and early afternoon in prison cells at the police station and the Middlesex County Courthouse prior to his arraignment before Judge James W. Bailey...
...Holt said he plans to request an apology from Dottin, in addition to being found innocent and filing an official complaint concerning the patrolman's actions. But Holt also said he fears that the incident may adversely affect him--particularly when he applies to law school next fall...
John Yellin. Holt's attorney, said yesterday that his first attempt to "dispose of the case" will be based on the fact that Holt has no criminal record. He added that Holt may press charges in federal court claiming a civil rights violation