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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plantation Records, Shelby Singleton, 36, has followed up the single release with an album containing songs about some of the characters in P.T.A., hopes eventually to produce a movie about Harper Valley. Meanwhile, Texas-born Jeannie Riley, 22, a former $50-a-week secretary on Nashville's Music Row commands prime-time television bookings, $15,000-per-night personal appearances, and record royalties that may amount to $150,000 by year's end. So although she is still in the first grade in the vocal department, she has graduated with honors in tax brackets. The benefits are already...
...staked out new ground in the suburbs and built a nine-state chain that now numbers 59 stores, many under other names. Sales reached $758.6 million last year, and profits $19.7 million. This year sales are expected to top $800 million, making 1968 the 14th record year in a row...
...ESSENCE OF SECURITY by Robert S. McNamara. 176 pages. Harper & Row...
This fall a flurry of competitive editions are coming out in Europe and the U.S., over Solzhenitsyn's bitter and repeated public protests and disavowals. One is his novel The First Circle, rushed into print by Harper & Row in a translation that is often unreadable and sometimes ludicrously inaccurate. It will also appear as a Book-of-the-Month Club selection in November. In the original, The First Circle is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a scathing, ironic portrayal of life in Russia in 1948 and its concentric circles of hell expanding out from Stalin, who has never been made so frighteningly...
Vanishing Sting. Yet no paper managed to cover Texas with more vigor, enthusiasm and sensitivity. Only the Observer, Morris says, ever bothered to show any interest "in the last words of a 17-year-old rapist on death row, or in the terror of a seven-year-old Negro child in an adult ward for the mentally ill, or in what Norman Mailer said or did not say to the college students in Austin." Unabashedly liberal and outspoken, the weekly was often exasperating, sometimes wrong, never humdrum or stale...