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...Scranton, Pa., where somebody evidently slipped Washington Post Reporter Nancy Collins parts of H.R. Haldeman's The Ends of Power fresh from the bindery, life was pretty much back to normal last week. The network cameras had departed. Law enforcement officials had received no complaints of wrongdoing, and did not intend to solicit any. Collins seemed to have had her fill of notoriety and, at the end of a week spent mostly in ducking interviews, said: "This is all very nice, but I've got stories...
...drinking alone in the office one night when this dame wanders in. Real sweet, she was, with coal dust in her long blonde hair and a crumpled bus ticket in her fist. "Scranton," she sighed by way of explanation, in a voice that trailed off like the Doppler effect of a passing 18-wheeler on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. I poured her a stiff one, and she poured me her story: "I have this terrific manuscript, but please don't ask how I got it, and I just have to get into the newspapers before they do." "They?" "The syndicate...
...episode does have all the marks of a grade-Z whodunit, complete with an anonymous woman caller, a mysterious motel room in Scranton, Pa., purloined pages and sotto voce allegations of bad faith and perhaps even criminality. What is known is that Post Reporter Nancy Collins penetrated perhaps the most elaborate security precautions ever thrown around the birth of a book, and that her coup touched off a divisive row in the publishing community that some newsmen quickly dubbed "Scrantongate...
...leaks. The manuscript was set in type at Haddon Craftsmen, Inc., in Bloomsburg, Pa., under the eyes of uniformed security guards, on old-fashioned Linotype machines. Their output of hot metal was melted down as soon as it was used. The pages were bound at a Haddon plant in Scranton, also under guard; and finished books were sealed in tough plastic wrappers and then stored in locked trucks and warehouses...
...people are William Scranton, former governor of Pennsylvania, Prosser Gifford, professor of Government and dean of faculty at Amherst College and William McNerney, president of Blue Cross...