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Tastes have also changed. Tourists-with the possible exception of the Germans-no longer have the ambition to plow through such weighty tomes as the Guides Bleus, which describe every stone and tree in fine print. "To sell," says one London publisher, "you have to put out atmospherics. You have to provide a well-written feeling for the place, a lot of color, a lot of narrative." Such books are all to the good, for when they are done by sensitive writers, they can achieve an almost poetic understanding of places they cover. One such series is the Companion Guides...
Conniff is confident, however, that once his paper gets into print, it will provide a bright commentary on New York. "This is a lively town," he says, "and we're going to reflect it." For foreign coverage, the World Journal will rely on the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. Like both its predecessors, the paper will depend on newsstand sales-which means large eye-catching headlines. But with the Journal and Telegram no longer vying with each other in sensationalism, Conniff hopes to make his combined paper more reflective and responsible...
...graduate school Potter, like so many others, began to feel old and jaded. He sent an engagement notice to the New York Times, which did not print it; thus the engagement was broken. His name stopped appearing on letters. One of his creators got married and moved out of Child...
...achieved the highest form of immortality--he is now part of a computer program. His Eng Sci 110 friend, now a programmer for a California company, wrote a computer program so that, after the user had made an absurdly simple mistake in working the machine, the computer would print out, "Congratulations! You have just committed the impossible error. Please notify Stephen Potter immediately at this address..." The program got world-wide distribution and a few weeks ago Stephen received a letter from a very embarrassed French Army Minister...
...private life and the usurpation of it for money" (TIME, Feb. 11). Hotchner certainly will make money from this book: serialization rights were sold to the Saturday Evening Post for about $50,000, it is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, and, with 60,000 copies in print, it is clearly destined for the bestseller lists...