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...Californians thought the battle was already lost. Said Terrance Allen, an entomologist who worked in the state's Medfly eradication program last year: "The infestation is so large that we just don't have the manpower and resources to stop it." But Medfly Project Director Jerry Scribner was more sanguine...
...noted that the helicopters had become more efficient by week's end, raising hopes that spraying can be completed on schedule. (The original plan called for six applications spread out over a minimum of six weeks.) If this happens, Scribner and his technical advisers feel there is a 98% chance of wiping out the bedeviling...
...later provided some basis for the charge when he argued proper Russian usage with Vladimir Nabokov. But he was right about Hemingway's sexual antagonism. It started with his mother. "I hate her guts and she hates mine. She forced my father to suicide," he writes Publisher Charles Scribner in 1949. Women, he suggests frequently, will trap and destroy a man. They can also be too competitive. After his divorce from Combat Correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway writes Scribner: "Have a new housemaid named Martha and certainly is a pleasure to give her orders. Marty was a lovely girl though...
...piece of bad news to U.S. publishers, already whipsawed by inflation and recession. The IRS edict made it more costly to maintain backlists, the reserve of older and usually high-quality books that sell slowly but steadily year after year. To such houses as Knopf, Random House, Houghton Mifflin, Scribner's, and Little, Brown, backlists confer a sense of tradition and continuity whose value cannot be entirely tallied in dollars. Says Knopf Editor in Chief Robert Gottlieb: "Our intent is to keep our backlist in print as long as possible and to make those books available to, bookstores...
...roulette table. With the literary agent acting as croupier, editors must frantically get their bets down on potential bestsellers. Says Viking's Alan Williams: "If Maxwell Perkins were around today, he wouldn't have time to be Maxwell Perkins. He would not be able to sit at Scribner's and have wonderful authors turn up in the morning mail. He would be out grubbing with the rest of us, cozening agents and trying to get onto books earlier and wondering how much money to bid." Adds Georges Borchardt, an agent whose clients include John Gardner, Stanley Elkin...