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...GREEN RIPPER by John D. MacDonald; Lippincott; 221 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Mid-Life Surge of McGee | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

...Lippincott; 288 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kaleidoscope | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...Pope is a hard kidnap to follow. Hijacking the Kremlin is about the only plot outrageous enough-and that is precisely what a band of Russian dissidents sets out to do in David Lippincott's Salt Mine (Viking; 333 pages; $10.95). Led by the mysterious Alyosha Gregarin and funded by the World Jewish Alliance, amateurs of every faith and skill capture the Kremlin's Oruzheinaya Palata, taking hostage some 50 tourists and the sacred corpse of Lenin. Author Lippincott, who admits to having had "some intelligence connections," knows his Moscow and the schizoid style of its new aristocracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Malice in Wonderland | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...author assures us it is true. We do not know." Despite this weak disclaimer, J.B. Lippincott Co. last March published In His Image as nonfiction. The book, though dull and error filled, stirred immediate controversy by claiming that a baby boy cloned from an eccentric aging millionaire (and thus his genetic duplicate), by a doctor named "Darwin," was alive and well. Had Lippincott checked with any of the reputable scientists quoted in the book or even with the editors in its own medical book division, it would have known that the story was probably fraudulent; experts agree that no mammal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Costly Hoax? | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...notice has been served on Rorvik and Lippincott-and, indirectly, on other authors and publishers-that it may well be costly to print as fact books that are fictitious or, even worse, hoaxes. Charging that Rorvik and Lippincott have done just that, Oxford University Geneticist J. Derek Bromhall last week filed a $7 million libel suit against them. Bromhall, a respected scientist, notes that he would not have brought suit had Image been published as fiction. But as nonfiction, he says, the book has "defamed" him by quoting from his research "so as to create the impression that Bromhall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Costly Hoax? | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

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