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Last week Catterson saw his photo in an ad for an HBO film, Missing Persons: Four True Stories. He returned to New Jersey and saw the program in a motel room. After watching the scenes of his grieving family, Catterson went to the Lodi police, who helped track them down. Ironically, they had moved to Tarpon Springs, Fla., about 200 miles from Catterson's new home. "I'm ecstatic," said a forgiving Patricia. Said the returned husband and father: "It looks like everything's working out wonderfully...
CAMPAIGN James Johnson kept his glacial blue eyes glued to the motel-room TV set, his mouth slightly open as if in wonder. Walter Mondale's campaign chairman had been in the state capitol in St. Paul earlier that day, of course, but he wanted to relive that poignant experience. He switched around among all three networks, nodding in silent approval as anchormen described Mondale's running-mate selection as historic and unprecedented. The phone broke into Johnson's reverie: it was his boss calling. Johnson told him the story had dominated the nightly news and the national reaction...
Subtitled A Tale of Terror, this novel will horrify only those who believe that the gruesome should not also be funny. The macabre begins when Bob Glandier, a repulsively fat and wicked Twin Cities businessman, follows his runaway wife to the Lady Luck Motel in Las Vegas and murders her. In her grave back home in Minnesota, Giselle feels her spirit stir and realizes that she, like the heroine of the ballet Giselle, is destined to haunt her husband. Unfortunately, the escape from her moldering mortal remains requires the simultaneous death of her mother, who wakes up in "a kind...
...Walter Mondale, who has flown more miles, spoken more words and slept in more motel beds than any other presidential candidate in history, the final week on the stump produced no last hurrahs...
...announced a program that gives its 80 million residential customers credits toward buying 50 different products and services. By making $15 to $300 a month in long-distance calls, customers become eligible for reductions on Polaroid cameras, airline tickets and nights in a Howard Johnson's motel. If callers reach out and touch someone often enough or long enough, they can talk themselves into $500 off a Toyota truck. The A T & T plan is aimed at helping the company hang on to its dominance of the $45 billion U.S. longdistance market...