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...Legend, by Richard Matheson (Gold Medal Books, paperbound; 25?). When Robert Neville's wife finally died in 1975, he refused to carry her body to the huge, burning pit into which other victims of the mysterious disease had been dumped. Instead, he buried her secretly. That night there was a fumbling at his door: it was his wife, come back to drink his blood. For she. like the others, had become a vampire. This embarrassing domestic crisis (he eventually drives a stake through her heart) is only one of the milder episodes in I Am Legend. Every night...
Smashup, by Theodore Pratt (Gold Medal; paperbound. 25?). is a graphic reminder to drive carefully even when the life you save may not be your own. On the highways of a town called Center City, one car plows into another at 50 miles an hour. Score: one dead, one severely injured. The guilty party, a 200-lb., iron-willed matron, promptly sues the other driver (a young millionaire) for $300,000 on grounds that disfiguring injuries have ruined her daughter's budding career as a beauty queen and TV star. But two unexpected witnesses make depositions to set things...
This spring the bonanza began to peter out. Last week one of the most knowing New York publishers said flatly: "The paperbound business is going to hell." Paperback sales were down only about 10% from last year, but returns of books from dealers were up as much...
...TIME and Newsweek are banned, and similar bans are being considered for Sat-evepost and Esquire. Any books brought in -from paperbound whodunits to encyclopedias-are likely to be confiscated...
...thirtieth anniversary, the editors of TIME have produced a book called Live Them Again, a "quiz book and memory jogger" covering the years 1923-1953. It has just been published by Simon & Schuster in a paperbound edition (price...