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...Saturday Review of Literature, as it was called until 1952, began in 1924 as a spin-off of the weekly books supplement to the New York Post. The founding editor, Henry Seidel Canby, was a Yale lecturer in literature and chief judge for 32 years of the Book-of-the-Month Club. A key associate was William Rose Benet, a Pulitzer-prize-winning poet. In 1940, control passed to Norman Cousins, then 25, whose editorial interests took in the sciences, travel, the music-recording business and, above all, politics. A dedicated liberal activist, he used SR's once staid...
...appear on grocery items, magazines and other goods. The wand reads the codes, and the unit makes the appropriate sounds. The machine can also sing, bark or even say "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." Texas Instruments this year will publish at least eight coded books, including Stranded E.T.'s Adventure, a spin-off from the new Steven Spielberg movie. The Magic Wand costs $120 and each book...
...largest securities dealers, including Goldman, Sachs & Co., First Boston Corp. and Salomon Bros., are the dominant traders in the $700 billion market. As interest rates have gyrated in this market in recent years, those dealings have become attractive to other firms. Last February, for example, Drysdale, a $5 million spin-off of the 92-year-old Drysdale Securities Corp. brokerage house, opened its doors...
...high rollers in the Great Entertainment Sweepstakes, well versed in the arts of spin-off and tie-in, have created a devious form of autobiography: they hitch their histories to their hits. The follow-ups are often more compelling than the blockbusters. The Godfather Papers and Other Confessions, for example, revealed a talented and sensitive Mario Puzo far more than it explored his Mafia megaseller. Texas Writer and Journalist Larry L. King extends this technique in his seventh and best book. At street level, he hilariously and venomously chronicles The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas-from 1974 Playboy magazine piece...
...Graham said that DNA research already being conducted in Cambridge has yet to produce any new jobs, saying. "I haven't seen one spin...