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Over the past three years, Mesa Petroleum Chief T. Boone Pickens has become America's best-known corporate raider, earning more than $800 million for Mesa and its partners and striking cold fear into the hearts of U.S. oil companies. Knowing a good yarn in the making, at least seven major publishers have been competing for the rights to his autobiography. The winner: Houghton Mifflin, which will pay Pickens $1.5 million for his story. "We'll have some details that haven't been told before," said Pickens last week...
Farfetched? No doubt. But when Tu o Nadie (Nobody but You), the Mexican novela that spun this improbable yarn, was telecast on Los Angeles' KMEX last spring, it drew more viewers for its time slot than any other independent station in the area. Nor was that an anomaly for Los Angeles' thriving Channel 34. An affiliate of SIN (the Spanish International Network), KMEX tops two of the city's three major network affiliates in reaching young adults during certain important time periods. "When I came to this station in 1963, I was told it was a dead-end business because...
...insured. The chilling effect is considerable, believe me. I consider myself to have my share of guts, but the next reporter who comes to me with a story and tells me it will cost me $1,275,000 to run it, better have himself one hell of a yarn...
When word of the episode first came out of Montana ten months ago, it seemed a bizarre yarn that belonged in the pages of some old Wild West pulps. Two unshaven, rifle-toting renegade mountain men, a father and son, abduct a young woman to take with them into the trackless Spanish Peaks wilderness where they live. Overtaken by searchers, they kill one pursuer, accidentally wound their captive of 18 hours (she has now recovered completely), then flee alone to the high country, only to be tracked down five months later by an unrelenting sheriff...
Moore is an old pro, author of such surefooted novels as The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and The Luck of Ginger Coffey. But in Black Robe he slips between James Fenimore Cooper and Graham Greene, between a visually rich adventure yarn and lip service paid to human frailty and divine mercy. Nearly four-fifths of the novel is spent on the trail, providing the author with the simplest means of moving his story and creating suspense. The main test of wills occurs hastily in the last 50 pages and contains a solar eclipse that frightens off hostile Indians just...