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...sumptuous coffee-table cookbooks since her first, Entertaining, in 1982, but she has also become at 47 the guru of good taste (and taste buds) in American entertaining, looked to by millions of American women for guidance about everything from weddings to weeding. From her beginnings as a Westport, Conn., caterer, she has risen like cream, until she now supplies her expertise through a newsletter, videos, seminars and lectures. Says Stewart: "I leave a lecture with 800 or 900 new friends -- I consider them my friends -- who will buy all my books, write to me and come to my seminars...
...health-food business is rapidly going to the dogs. Cats too. A growing number of nutrition-minded pet owners have started watching what they feed their furry friends. Worried that Fido has heart trouble? Serve him low- cholesterol biscuits baked by Lick Your Chops of Westport, Conn. Is Kitty overweight? Try a high-fiber, low-fat regimen from Hill's Pet Products of Topeka, Kans. At long last, people who buy fresh pasta and wheat germ no longer have to settle for plain old puppy chow...
Hamilton's search for Salinger leads him into the author's fiction, where he finds autobiographical inspiration. The city and suburban settings of Nine Stories reflect Salinger's Manhattan youth and his adult stint among the commuters of Westport, Conn. The soldier in the magical For Esme -- with Love and Squalor suffers from a case of nerves not unlike the symptoms Salinger described in a letter to Hemingway. Models are identified for members of the Glass family, the precocious and haunting characters who ride the time loops of stories as early as A Perfect Day for Bananafish and as late...
BUSINESS: Henry Sicignano III '90 of North House and Williamsville, New York, Business Manager, Kenneth M. Richman '90 of Winthrop House and Westport, Connecticut, Sales Manager John T. Schiavone '89 of Cabot House and Flushing, New York, Finance Manager, Amy J. Merritt '90 of Lowell House and Roslyn, New York, Advertising Manager, Angela C. Chaves '89 of Quincy House and Hudson, Massachusetts, Circulation Manager, Michael Pendleton of Mather House and Kaukaura, Wisconsin, Circulation Manager, Andrew A. Samwick '89 of Dunster House and Palm Beach Garden, Florida, Operations Manager, Anil K. Shrivastava '90 of Dunster House and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Production Manager...
...most successful video yearbooks are rarely bought by more than a quarter of the graduating students, compared with two-thirds or so who usually pick up the book version. Still, the converts in academia are enthusiastic. Frank Wiener, 66, who directs the TV program at Staples High School in Westport, Conn., pays video yearbooks the ultimate tribute: "I wish I had one from my high school...