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Though the Watergate serial dominated our mail, our Jan. 22 cover on Marlon Brando's controversial film, Last Tango in Paris, elicited an unprecedented 12,000 letters for a single story, surpassing the number received for the previous record holder, the cover story Is God Dead?, in 1966. A story need not be cover-length, however, to stir up a big response. A short item in People [April 2] on Billy Graham drew scores of letters, most of which criticized the evangelist's suggestion that rapists be castrated. "Bless Billy Graham for making virtue secure," wrote one subscriber...
...compulsive worker who produced more than 230 magazine pieces before he was 40-plus four novels, a volume of essays and the book that made his reputation, Mark Twain's America. He was capable of hacking out 30,000 words in a fecund week of writing romantic serial fiction for the Saturday Evening Post under the pen name "John August," scribbling in panic before the "manias, depression and blue funks" as well as the living expenses that pursued him. (DeVoto had a fondness for domestic help, new Buicks and private education.) This "literary department store" came as close...
...locomotive he could overpower. Terry and the Pirates, Buck Rogers and Little Orphan Annie were liberated from the frozen postures of the comic strip. Captain Midnight; Tom Mix; Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy, among others, became the aural equivalents of the dime novel and the magazine serial...
Davis snapped: "Here's the money. Do what you want with it." Ervin had the bills photocopied and returned to Da vis. Afterward, committee staffers began checking serial numbers to see if the bills are at least three years old. If they are, that would buttress Rebozo's story that the money lay in a safe-deposit box for three years...
...serial publication of Yukio Mishima's last works, a tetralogy called The Sea of Fertility, has the eerie effect of making him seem the fastest and most prolific dead writer in history. A bit more than a year ago came the English translation of the first posthumous volume, Spring Snow. Last summer it was Runaway Horses. Now we have The Temple of Dawn...