Word: redbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after his death, so would anyone else who has not kept up with the firm over the past decade. Since 1978, when Frank Bennack Jr. was named president, Hearst has spent $1.4 billion acquiring more than 20 companies, including three TV stations, ten daily newspapers, two magazines (Esquire and Redbook) and two book companies (Arbor House and William Morrow & Co.). Since the company remains privately owned, the balance sheet is a closely held secret. Industry observers calculate that Hearst's gross revenues last year totaled $1.9 billion, leaving an estimated pretax profit of $285 million...
...least until now. Temporary Shelter presents 20 tales, a number of which have previously appeared in publications ranging from the highbrow (Antaeus, Granta) to the mass market (Redbook, Mademoiselle). The quality is uneven, the good mixed with occasional bits of fluff. No single story in this collection seems automatically destined for anthologies. Yet the book as a whole is a good deal more powerful and absorbing than any of its individual parts...
...predictions by a teacher have proved to be more accurate. A half-century later, just before her death in 1978, Margaret Mead had become so famous that a lot of people who read her column in Redbook or saw her on the Tonight show did not even know that she was an anthropologist. She was simply Margaret Mead, a celebrity, as bursting with opinions as Norman Mailer, as free with advice as Ann Landers...
...provide this information. Brazelton plans to publish a new book for working mothers in September, writes regularly for Redbook magazine, and appears in a 26-part cable television series that deals with problems such as colic and toilet training...
...memory bank stuffed with 10,000 popular novels. Her books are put together with pieces of these old fictions. But there can be glitches: "Rosemary's word processor is on the blink and she is not getting the sort of scenes that Rogue Duke needs. But Redbook is pressing her. So Rosemary tries to dredge up some Georgette Heyer channel-packet stuff. Instead Rosemary gets a Bulwer-Lytton trireme, by mistake...