Word: snyders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Snyder, president of Simon & Schuster, agrees: "Anyone who decries the state of fiction is naive. It used to be that the maximum you could hope to sell in quality work was about 100,000 copies. That figure has doubled in recent years...
...book-publishing industry, which relies on newspaper reviews to boost sales, has taken to such alternative vehicles as television and radio spots; Simon & Schuster President Richard Snyder can now be heard on radio peddling his wares in much the same way that gravel-voiced Tom Carvel sells the products of his ice cream shops. But authors of forthcoming books are woebegone. Linley Stafford, a publicist whose first book, One Man's Family, will be published by Random House on Oct. 13, has postponed the press party ("How can you have one without a press?" his agent asked). Says Stafford...
...graduate student named George Volkoff, argued that neutron stars could in fact exist. They would have a diameter of about 10 km (6 miles) and weigh about 10 million tons per cu. cm. In the second paper, innocuously titled "On Continued Gravitational Contraction," Oppenheimer and another student, Hartland Snyder, contended that if the dying star was massive enough, nothing in Einstein's theory stood in the way of the ultimate compression?the formation of a singularity...
...relief, though, there were many who were glad to see John Y. Brown departing from Buffalo. Since Brown assumed command of the franchise in 1977, taking over a sinking ship from Paul Snyder, the major topic of his discussions has been where to relocate his organization...
...press and the fans have charged Brown with falsifying figures and presenting a more gloomy picture of things than was realistic. Since late 1976, when then-owner Snyder began the give-away spree of talent, the public has grown discontented with the team...