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...Mardi, all by a young novelist named Herman Melville (1819-91). Nearly 33,000 copies have been printed, shipped and readied for sale. And that is not all. Three look-alike companions are also hot off the presses and speeding toward dealers: the complete poetry and prose of Walt Whitman (1819-92), the tales and sketches of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) and three novels by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). They will soon be available in U.S. bookstores, at $25 apiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Library in the Hands | 5/3/1982 | See Source »

...with a 356 B.A. 19. Al Downing of the Dodgers who like Aaron, also wore no 44. 20. The Angels were 86-76 in 1962. 21. On May 15, 1912 the Tigers went on strike for one day to protest the suspension of their best player, Ty Cobb. 22. Walt Dropo drove in 144 RBIs in 1950. 23. Gene Conley played for both the Celtics and Braves in 1957. 24. In 1972 Jim Barr of the Giants broke Pirate Harvey Huddi's record set in 1959. 25. Jerry Gibson, author of Big League Barbay,. 26. a) Monte Cross...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Read These Upside Down | 4/27/1982 | See Source »

...wife, Scrooge McDuck as Ebenezer Scrooge, Goofy as Marley's Ghost, Donald Duck as Ebenezer's nephew, Jiminy Cricket as the Ghost of Christmas Past and Daisy Duck as Scrooge's girlfriend. Newcomers may not notice, but age has changed Mickey's voice. His creator, Walt Disney, spoke for him for the first 19 years of his life, and Disney Sound Effects Man Jim Macdonald, 75, carried on the tradition for the next three decades. Now Wayne Allwine, 35, who was but a Mouskatoddler when Mickey last used his union card, will be handling the vocals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 19, 1982 | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

...holes have attracted a lot of attention in the past few years, spawning pinball games, adventure movies, and dozens of sci-fi novels. Hawking says he's very glad to see all the popular interest, but he's not always so pleased with the form it takes. For instance. Walt Disney invited him to be a consultant for its film. "The Black Hole." Although he turned them down, he did accept an invitation to the movie premier. "It was an awful film," he says...

Author: By Matthew L. Meyerson, | Title: The Radiance of the Mind | 3/25/1982 | See Source »

...couple of rules may apply to generalizations about excellence: 1) all recollections of past excellence should be discounted by at least 50%; memory has its tricks of perspective; 2) what might be called the Walt Whitman Rule: exuberant democratic energy usually finds its own standards and creates its own excellence, even though the keepers of the old standards may not like the new. A Big Mac may sometimes surpass the concoctions of Julia Child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Have We Abandoned Excellence? | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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