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...visits. That's a big mistake, say the experts. Plan ahead to be a good guest, especially during the holidays. "Christmas can mean total chaos; to have a guest stay in the middle of it is really tough," says Baldrige, author of New Manners for New Times (Scribner; 709 pages). To prevent misunderstandings, talk before your visit about exactly how long your stay will be and what type of activities you plan...
...Haygood chases after him in a new biography, In Black and White (Knopf; 516 pages). Oddly, it's one of two published this month--the other is Gary Fishgall's Gonna Do Great Things (Scribner; 448 pages)--but it would take at least a dozen volumes to capture a life that encompassed tapping with Bojangles and making Cannonball Run with Jackie Chan. Haygood's book is the more interesting of the two, mostly because it's less sympathetic. Davis was a man who would do anything to be liked, and that's a mistake Haygood wisely avoids...
...farms. But in Maine they found their choices limited and decided to grow their greens and vegetables. The garden supplies the restaurant with 20 kinds of tomatoes, 28 varieties of lettuce and many other vegetables. Gaier and Frasier hope to inspire home cooks with their new The Arrows Cookbook (Scribner). Even people without an acre of land can use the book, says Gaier: "We hope that people will go to the market, find beautiful produce and then let the book inspire them...
...begin, and female attorneys such as Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg had been unable to find firms to hire them. But Hope and 14 other pioneering women managed to graduate from Harvard in the class of 1964, as Hope describes in her new book, Pinstripes & Pearls (Scribner...
...unless you happen to be a windmill repairman, she also knows a whole lot more than you do about old water-pumping windmills. When she started work on her sly new novel, That Old Ace in the Hole (Scribner; 384 pages), she thought it would center on windmills and the people who work on them in the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. "For years I've drifted through there on the way to other places," she says in her agreeably settled but sometimes impish voice. "There were these dilapidated places with windmills facedown in the yard and a general...