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...claim. Random House Editor Sam Vaughan accurately notes that "King is one of those rare writers with both a cult and a mass audience." And Barnes & Noble Buyer Ronda Wanderman ungrammatically observes, "King goes beyond horror like Danielle Steel goes beyond romantic fiction." Columbia English Professor George Stade probes further. The King novels, he maintains, "are not so different from the Sherlock Holmes stories, Dracula or Tarzan. We need these guys around, and we tend to read them more than we read James Joyce." The author cherishes few illusions. He likes to be compared with "Jack London, who said...
...British Consulate requested the University select 50 students who share one of Prince Charles' interests--polo playing, architecture, music, student government or third world issues--to attend a special tea with the Prince on September 4, said Melissa von Stade, an official in the University Development Office who is overseeing the student invitations...
...College and graduate school deans also recommended students that helped in the 350th anniversary preparations, according to von Stade. She said she will pare down the approximately 100 names given to her to 50, of which about 30 will beundergraduates...
...representative from the British Consulatewill coach the selected students on the proper wayto behave around royalty, said von Stade, addingthat the same thing would have occurred for otherfamous people...
...addition to a monetary prize, Costes will receive a book and along with his Expository writing teacher, John De Cuevas, has been invited to lunch with Von Stade and Marius...