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...flight to Nassau, I picked up the text. Not a minute later, almost involuntarily, I let forth a cry that caused several passengers to turn in their seats." By the time his plane had landed, Seaman knew that TIME and the book's publisher, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, had a best seller on their hands...
...Lady, whose meddling became the "random factor in the Reagan presidency." Regan, who served the Administration for six years, the first four as Secretary of the Treasury, details how Nancy, and not her husband, stage-managed his ouster. His profile of her in For the Record, which Harcourt Brace Jovanovich is publishing this month and TIME is excerpting in the following pages, constitutes Exhibit 1 in the defense of Donald T. Regan...
Regan offered a sometimes bitter account of his stormy days at the White House in, For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington, published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich and scheduled to go on sale in bookstores today...
Even Bugs Bunny has to hop aside when Brer Rabbit comes by. The big-eared varmint has been a folk hero since early slave days, and his sly outwitting of bullies and bosses is history disguised in fur and interpreted by the victims. Jump Again! (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $14.95) demonstrates that a classic offers something fresh to each generation. This time it is Van Dyke Parks' riotous retelling and Barry Moser's elegant watercolors. Beneath the new surface, of course, the hero is instantly familiar, once again outmaneuvering Brer Fox, Weasel and Bear, winning the paw of Miss Molly...
...gambit was clearly successful for Harcourt, the largest U.S. textbook + publisher, and its imperious chairman, William Jovanovich, 67. Early last week the company's 15-member board voted to proceed with a $3 billion plan that will give each shareholder a package of special dividends and stock valued at more than $50 a share. The next day British Press Baron Robert Maxwell, owner of the London Daily Mirror, called off a $44-a-share takeover bid. Jovanovich had made the fight a battle of personalities. He called Maxwell's offer "preposterous" and declared the Fleet Street habitue "entirely unfit...