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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Second Whole Kids Catalog (Bantam; $7.50), by Peter Cardozo, belongs on any whole kid's bookshelf. No matter what his or her interest-or obsession-this fat paperback has an entry to satisfy it. Like the first Whole Kids Catalog (1975), its encore lists scores of free items that children can send away for-posters, coloring books, even games. Is the child a budding conjuror? Self-Working Card Tricks are only a postage stamp (plus $1.50) away, as well as membership in the Young Magicians Club. Kids into cartoons and photography can study film animation, make paper movie machines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Cornucopia of Children's Books | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...conflict than his new novel, The Immigrants. It is the first book in a projected trilogy that will follow a number of families from 1888 into the present. Universal already plans to film the saga as a 36-part TV series, for which Fast should gross $975,000. The paperback rights have been sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Reds to Riches | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

Salesmen at the General Nutrition Center store on Holyoke St. said yesterday they sell about two quarts of liquid protein each day. Most customers learned about the diet through a paperback bestseller, "The Last Chance Diet," they said...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Scientist Study Harmful Effects Of Protein Diet | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

Schwarzenegger knows where the best deals like, his book notwithstanding, and he will soon embark on the first of what he hopes will be a series of films based on the fantasy paperback, Konan, the Barbarian--shades of Johnny Weismuller's Tarzan epics. Despite his typecasting for the role, Schwarzenegger has been taking acting lessons for some time, even though he says he knows how to act. After all, acting is supposed to be natural these days since it has "gotten away from that Shakespearean way, delivering the lines in a weird...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: 'I knew I was a winner. I just had it in me.' | 11/3/1977 | See Source »

Knopf; 181 pages, illustrated; $12.95;paperback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Garden of Unearthly Delights | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

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