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...arbitrarily been ruled out as ever being successor to Cronkite still rankled. His 1977 autobiography The Camera Never Blinks (written with Mickey Herskowitz) amounted to effective lobbying over the heads of the network brass and toward the public at large. The book was a bestseller in both hardback and paperback. Says Rather today: "I suddenly found myself in a very competitive race, not of my making. But if I am in this race, I intend...
Finished reading Judith Krantz's new novel under a rented hair dryer, as you suggested, got a bad case of the frizzies but not the answer to the big question: Why did Bantam Books shell out a record $3.2 million for the paperback rights? That may not be much by Hollywood standards, but in publishing, it is long, long bread any way you slice it. It is enough to give a dollar bill to every man, woman and child in New Zealand, with change left over to pay a major league utility infielder for a year. Put it another...
...messages. A slide show that followed Lum's speech at the Lutheran church last Friday included the ususal scenes of sweaty but cheerful youths working with the underpriviledged. The show then identified "revolutionary Marxism," Islam and Eastern "cults" as the enemies of the church's evangelistic efforts. Pamphlets and paperback books which further examine the philosophy and logistics of missionary work, many of them printed by the Inter-Varsity Press, are always available to students who attend such conferences. While some merely provide information or theological disscussion, others blatantly mix religion with politics...
Your Money Matters by Donald Moffitt. Even some six-digit corporate executives have no idea how they will bankroll their retirement, so Moffitt has collected his Wall Street Journal columns on personal finance into a $4.95 paperback for them as well as more modest money earners. Moffitt writes with cheekiness; the section on how to buy directors' liability insurance begins: "So you were dozing in your Eames chair when the other directors approved that 'commission' to His Austere Majesty the Grand Serene Slob of Lower Slobbovia?" Six pages on cutting home heating costs are invaluable, if only...
This is the stuff that sells for seven figures in paperback. But the book's commercial value is an added bonus, not something for "serious readers" to turn up their noses at. Thompsons' latest work is psychobiography, whodunit and courtroom drama tied into one, and fused by the enigmatic Sobhraj. The author says he is now at work on his first novel. One can only hope his imagination yields a subject as gripping as the real world...