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...Trib's new editor is Murray Weiss, onetime managing editor of the paper in New York. With a circulation of 60,000, one-third better than the Times's 45,000, Weiss plans no radical changes. The Trib will continue to use the graceful, award-winning makeup that was discarded by the New York edition five years ago. It has a strong group of columnists, and it also has the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post news service at its disposal. That often means bylined, front-page stories on major events a day ahead of the Times. Weiss...
...information and not fiction that is at the center of today's publishing. Books are often commissioned like magazine articles. The nonbook flourishes more than ever, sometimes recognizable by its title: Murray The K Tells It Like It Is, Baby; How to Make Yourself Miserable; The Red Chinese Air Force Exercise and Diet Book (a spoof). Human Sexual Response, a technical laboratory discussion, was never meant for the general reader, but it has been on the bestseller lists for 31 weeks on the strength of its title and clinical content. Typically, it has spawned two illegitimate children, What...
...limpest clichés, however, are the leading characters. Wild Bill Hickok (Don Murray) is presented as just one more bashful boob who would sooner face hot lead than cool lips. "Hit's easier to swim up Niagry Falls," he whines, "than hit is to understand a woman." Calamity Jane (Abby Dalton) comes off as a stereotype tomboy who looks like Doris Day wearing saddlebags but sounds like Martha Raye without a mute. "Beeeeyullllll," she squeeee-yulllllls, "yore huh-urrrrrt...
...QUARTERBACK by Murray Olderman. 437 pages. Prentice-Hall. $12.95. An attempt with words and pictures to explain the collisions that take place on autumnal afternoons. The game, which Sports Editor Olderman defines as "human chess," receives thorough coverage, including the author's own rating of the best pro quarterbacks: 1) Otto Graham, 2) John Unitas, and 3) Bobby Layne...
...Died. Murray D. Lincoln, 74, a pioneer in the cooperative movement, who I in 1920 took over the fledgling Ohio...