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...life: "The author [Bech] in these thin times supported himself by appearing at colleges. There, he was hauled from the creative-writing class to the faculty cocktail party to the John D. Benefactor Memorial Auditorium and thence, baffled applause still ringing in his ears, back to the Holiday Inn." Did Updike, invited by the Franklin Library, once agree to sign 20,000 volumes of Rabbit Run on the island of St. Thomas? Bech is lured by Su-perbooks, a subsidiary of the Superoil Corp., to autograph 28,500 sheets, at $1.50 each (Updike was paid a bit more...
...Iacocca, the brash, cigar-chomping chairman of Chrysler Corp., is an optimist by nature. At the introduction of his company's 1983 model cars at The Woodlands Inn & Country Club near Houston last week, however, he could scarcely disguise a sense of frustration. Said Iacocca: "Chrysler is ready to go; unfortunately the economy is not. There's a lot of fear out there because there's a lot of uncertainty about interest rates, currency values and our economic policy...
Boston 4, Milwaukee 3 (10 inn...
...York 2, Montreal 1 (10 inn., first...
Signed to play the Queen Mother in the TV movie Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance, Olivia de Havilland, 66, added a little plump to her circumstances, a net gain of 10 Ibs. to be exact. The film over, the actress weighed in at the tony Sonoma Mission Inn near San Francisco for three weeks. There, in return for $4,725, she got 800 calories a day and a dawn-to-dusk dose of warmups, aerobics, slimnastics and martial-arts classes, plus visits to the Jacuzzi and herbal wraps (using herb-soaked Irish linen sheets). Olivia's gross loss...