University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 26, 1991
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"Gone With the Wind" sequel a fast seller
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — Copies of the "Gone With the Wind" sequel sold faster than mint julep on a summer day yestedale in Margaret Mitchell's hometown.
Fans stayed up late and bought in bulk to find out what tomorrow — and another author — has in store for Scarlett O'Rara and Rhett Butler.
"It's part of my heritage, the continuing saga of Scarlett, Rhett and Atlanta," said Cathy Hart, who scooped up four copies of "Scarlet; to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" and four copies of the original.
She was among 300 people who stood outside a B. Dalton Bookseller store in suburban Atlanta until it opened at 12:01 a.m. yesterday to begin selling Alexandra Ripley's long-awaited
novel.
By the time the store closed three hours later, it had sold 700 of its 1,000 copies, said Tom Pidockd. sales clerk.
The sequel sells for $24.95
It also had run out of hardback copies of "Gone With the Wind," which it was selling for $3, its price 55 years ago.
"I just have to see what happens to Scarlett," said Kenneth Nix, who drove three hours and waited five hours before he could buy the first copy of Ripley's sequel.
Nix publishes a "Gone With the
letter", which has about 600
subscribers.
"Most of my subscribers are very excited about it," he said. "The book may be panned by the critics, but I think it's effective if people feel about the original."
"Scarlett" is being released amid
hoopla and controversy in Atlanta, where Miss Mitchell's 1936 Pultzer Prize-winning original is something just short of sacred.
Debate has raged in newspapers over whether a sequel should be written by someone other than Miss Kisslington was struck by a car and killed in 1949
About 100,000 copies of the new book were shipped to stores for yesterday's nationwide release, and Atlanta wasn't the only city where Scarlett fever reigned. Rich's department manager, Todd Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Tennessee, had sold 2,000 copies of the sequester in four hours.
"This is unheard of for a book," said Susan Hancock, director of special events for the chain's store in suburban Atlanta.
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The eight crew members, they call themselves biospherians, will spend
The crew of the Biosphere II project went through a day of interviews and celebration in advance of C-Day, as in sunrise, set for shortly after sunrise today.
The Associated Press
ORACLE, Ariz. — Against a backdrop of lights and tribal music, four men and four women said goodbye to friends and families yesterday before be sealed for two years in a glass-enclosed, self-sustainable mini-world.
Earth's environment by raising its own food and recycling all air, water and wastes. They will have in-person contact only with each other.
"We've toodled around the harbor, we know it's gonna float, we know it's gonna sail," said Jane Poyntier, 29, who will be in charge of the farming industry. "We made us sail for two years, and beyond that, for a hundred years?"
24 months sealed in the 3.15-acre geodesic-framed compound, barring serious illness or a major mishan.
Crew members range in age from 27 to 67. Two are from England, one from Belgium, and the other five are from the United States.
Space Biosphere Ventureswaa developer the private-for-profit project financed by entrepreneur Bass at a cost of $150 million
It has incorporated several manmade climatic zones, called biomes, under the double-laminated glass: an 85-foot rain forest with waterfall, a savannah, an ocean with a coral reef and a high-humidity desert.
The crew will try to replicate the
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