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Uncle Scrooge never had the high-style sizzle of Superman or Prince Valiant, or the cockeyed melodrama of Dick Tracy, but the mock-heroic sweep of Barks' stories and the whimsical clarity of his drawing made a heavy mark on a generation of children for whom comic books offered...
Those egos will have to shrink, along with authors' incomes, as paperback houses become a greater force in publishing. More and more often now, they depend on generic categories-romances (25% to 30% of all fiction sold), mysteries, historical sagas and scifi. According to Sociologist Walter Powell, co-author...
Sticky political issues collide with the pristine Harvard image set forth in news office pamphlets and fund-raising speeches even in periods of relative calm. "Things have been plain dull recently." Lord says, but her office has had to work hard on the continuing sagas of town-and-gown relations...
Wallace's career might have provided a model for one of his magazine's profiles, which have always favored Horatio Alger sagas of the onward and the upward. His father was a Presbyterian minister who became president of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., where DeWitt was born...
DIED. Henry Miller, 88, earthy novelist and evangelist of unfettered sex, once hailed by Norman Mailer as "the last great American pioneer," in Pacific Palisades, Calif. After two decades as a roustabout in jobs ranging from a tailor shop to a New York speakeasy, Miller joined the expatriate migration to...