Word: dogs
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...This dog-wagging tale is told by most publishers. Jack Artenstein, publisher of juvenile books and adult paperbacks at Simon & Schuster, finds that "the children's book business is stronger this year than any other year I've seen. The first half of the year juvenile hard-covers were up 8% and juvenile paperback sales...
...fight through a for bidding given name, especially when they want to make some one more vivid hi their minds. Where would baseball be without Goose, hockey without Boom Boom, football without Mean Joe? Common criminals would sound like common criminals were there no Machine Gun, Killer or Mad Dog among them. Not that all gangster names are so picturesque. Nathan Kaplan's monicker was "Kid Dropper" for reasons too awful to contemplate. And Al Capone was known as the Millionaire Gorilla, though it is hard to picture some floozie chucking him under the chin and cooing, "Come...
...they settle their feud once and for all, neither man may get a chance to test those policies in office. "By the time the [Rabin-Peres] battle is over," Jerusalem Post Columnist Philip Gillon commented recently, the winner "will have as much hope of beating Begin as a celluloid dog would have of catching an asbestos cat in Hades...
...products for three months. As a reminder, the members of the movement get a wallet-size card listing products that are outlawed by the movement. Included are such familiar American Home items as Dristan, Anacin, Chef Boyardee, Wizard air freshener and Woolite, and General Foods' Gravy Train dog food, Kool-Aid, Maxwell House coffee, Birds Eye frozen foods and JellO. (Asks an outraged General Foods executive: "How can anyone consider Jell-O un-American?") In Dayton, the Belmont Church of Christ sent in 200 cards and passed out more than 800 to people in the com munity. "This...
...assisted by Cooper-Hewitt's Lucy Fellowes-assembles a widely (some would say wildly) eclectic domestic history. In one display he indicts chairs as uncomfortable and unhealthy, particularly the infant high chair ("a vicious, sado-pedagogic trap, as humiliating to a child as a leash is to a dog"). Elsewhere, he charts the sly history of the swing, which he describes in his book as "a pale copy of a onetime bold device for generating violent motion and emotion" of a sexual nature, mostly in women. He suggests that all forms of "bobbing mania," from lying in a hammock...