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Jakob is a character invented by Russell McCormmach, 48, a professor of the history of science at Johns Hopkins University. "After years of work on rather standard books of history for the specialist," says McCormmach, "I decided to try a kind of spin-off from scholarly material. Enter Victor." But if the physicist is made of whole cloth, the other personae of this remarkable exercise in fiction and historiography are not, and they rise from the pages as Jakob remembers them and their contributions to physics. There is the fascinating Scotsman James Clerk Maxwell, who forged the theory of electromagnetism...
...with A T & T, the Justice Department's suit against IBM became a black hole that swallowed up corporate resources. By the time the actual trial began in 1975, some 5,500 pages of testimony had been gathered, and more than a dozen other companies wound up filing spin-off antitrust actions of their own against IBM, producing 66 million more pages of documents. Concedes Thomas Barr, a senior partner in the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which managed IBM's defense and trained a whole generation of young antitrust lawyers in the process...
...control laws formed the Citizen's Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Led by Lobbyist John ("Magnum") Snyder, a former Jesuit seminarian, the committee has nearly 300,000 members and a $1.7 million annual budget. Its monthly newsletter is called Point Blank. Another N.R.A. spin-off is the Second Amendment Foundation, named after the Bill of Rights provision that guarantees citizens the right to bear arms. A fourth gun lobby, the Gun Owners of America Political Action Committee, was founded in 1975 by California State Senator H.L. Richardson. The organization, which has 350,000 members...
...attention. In a series ABC is considering, Once Upon a Spy, a woman plays a James Bond-like character, while her cowardly male partner wants to stay home and play chess. To match the soft-core female pornography of Charlie's Angels, ABC is also looking at a spin-off called Charlie's Devils, with three macho males chasing the baddies. Dancer Fitzgerald does not say what those sexy devils will be wearing, but it probably will be as little as possible. In CBS's Kops, California marshals patrol the coast in shorts and T shirts. Moral...
Trapper John, M.D. (Sept. 23, CBS, 10 p.m.). This M-A -S-#spin-off is the most misproduced show of the season: a seemingly foolproof idea completely spoiled by, well, fools. The series picks up its title character (originally played on television by Wayne Rogers) 28 years after Korea. Nowadays Trapper John is chief of surgery at a San Francisco hospital, and he is acted with consummate world-weariness by Pernell Roberts. A few grafted-on references to M*A*S*H notwithstanding, the show turns out to be nothing but an inept Marcus Welby retread. The plotting is vague...