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That omission was rectified last week with the publication of Amelia Earhart Lives (McGraw-Hill; $7.95). In the book, Novelist Joe Klaas traces the ten-year pursuit of an idée fixe by Joseph Gervais, a former Air Force major. Amelia, they say, was really on a spy mission for President Roosevelt, was interned in Japan during the war and traded back to the U.S. in 1945, where she has lived under an alias ever since. Their argument rests on a slithering foundation of fanciful codes, anagrams, leading but unanswered questions, and hints at deals among the Japanese, Roosevelt...
...REVOLUTION by Alex Karmel. 387 pages. McGraw-Hill...
BOARD Chairman Andrew Heiskell announced last week that Time Inc. and McGraw-Hill Inc. had reached an agreement in principle whereby McGraw-Hill will purchase 13 radio and television stations operated by Time-Life Broadcast. The sale, which is subject to the approval of the Federal Communications Commission and the directors of both corporations, calls for a price of $80.1 million. It includes AM and FM radio and VHF TV stations in Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Denver and San Diego, in addition to a UHF TV station in Bakersfield, Calif. (It does not include any of Time Inc.'s community...
...warm relationship with the talented people who run and manage these stations," said Heiskell. "They have served us well for 16 years, but we feel that the time is right for us to undertake a reallocation of our resources. We are pleased that the ownership will pass to McGraw-Hill because we know they will continue the tradition of public service for which these stations have been distinguished...
MARY by Vladimir Nabokov. 114 pages. McGraw Hill...