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...Today show, for example, may sell as many as 5,000 copies. But authors of novels that do not have mass appeal usually find the cost in energy greater than the returns. Some writers flop so badly on radio and television that they may even hurt sales. Irv Kupcinet, who conducts the Chicago-based Kup's Show, will even call publishers to suggest they cut short tours that he believes will be unproductive. He explains: "Some authors give this backward projection, and I tell the publisher they are only hurting themselves." Promotional travel usually gives the biggest boost...
...combat with the N.R.A. was occasioned by The Guns of Autumn, a documentary that purported to describe hunting in America. In 90 minutes, Director-Writer Irv Drasnin, a journalist for 15 years but not a hunter, compiled carnage upon atrocity. Black bears were slaughtered at a Michigan garbage dump by tourists with rifles. A gang of rednecks with the latest electronic gear treed a bear, then watched hounds rip it apart. Explained the pack's leader: "We feel that they deserve a chew." A pert stewardess plunked down $500 to "harvest" her first buffalo; then she pointed...
...irate Jews at a hastily called meeting. "You are pouring oil on the fire of the Middle East problem," charged a retired U.S. Army general, Julius Klein. Percy insisted that Israel should make adjustments now in order to avert another, bloodier war. Percy also answered questions from Irv Kupcinet on Chicago television. He noted that he had long criticized Arab leaders as more intransigent than Israel's but now saw some give in the Arab position. He said no fewer than twelve Arab leaders had told him that Israel's borders would be respected. "I'd hate...
...name is Irving M. Pollack, but to his staff he is "Irv." He often answers his own phone. His clothes appear to come from off the rack at Macy's. Peering into a legal brief through smudged spectacles, he looks like a bookkeeper on his way to nowhere. But he has long been the Securities and Exchange Commission's top cop as head of its tough Division of Enforcement and previously chief of its Division of Trading and Markets. Last week President Nixon promoted Lawyer Pollack (magna cum laude, Brooklyn Law School) to become...
...second quarter, attackman Steve Cooper, on a bounce shot, and Bock, off of an assist from busy middy Irv Brookstein, added points to make it 8-1 at the half...