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Author Erich Segal may have been a longtime No. 1 on the bestseller lists with Love Story, but you can't win them all. He panted in 489th out of a field of 887 in last week's Boston Marathon. But, as Harper & Row's pro motion manager must certainly agree, it wasn't a total loss-the 26 miles, 385 yards seemed to be lined with Love Story lovers. Said No. 489 afterward: "The muscles that hurt the most are in the mouth, from smiling back at the people." For Segal the marathon also disproved...
...Erich Segal, the famed runner who finished the Boston Marathon last week with a time of under three hours, has quit his teaching job at Yale at least until September...
Criticism from the national press concerning certain of his moonlighting activities has been "seeping in and cording the good will of my classes," Segal claims. "Slick publications weren't satisfied with attacking my writing. They impugned my personal integrity...
...idea that led to alibi tapes came to Leisure Data President Steve Lichtenstein when he saw the movie The Owl and the Pussycat. "George Segal had this tape of a barking dog," he remembers, "and I suddenly saw the possibilities. The whole country is paranoid, especially city apartment dwellers. So I got an attack dog and taped him trying to chew me up. It began selling 1,000 copies a week all over the country, just so people could switch it on when the doorbell rang." Soon Lichtenstein's out-of-work friends asked him to tape a selection...
...Love Story, Segal...