European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 07, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Best seller fiction 1 four past Midnight by Stephen King last week 1 weeks on list 4 2 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon last week 2 weeks on list 7 3 the general in his labyrinth by Gabriel Garcia Marquez last week 5 weeks on list 3 4 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow last week 3 weeks on list 17 5 hocus pocus by Kurt Vonnegut last week 4 weeks on list 3 6 surrender the Pink by Carrie Fisher last week 14 weeks on list 2 7 spy sinker by Len Deighton last week 7 weeks on list 4 8 the women in his life by Barbara Taylor Bradford last week 6 weeks on list 9 9 lady Boss by Jackie Collins first week on list 10 message from Nam by Danielle steel last week 8 weeks on list 16 non fiction 1 by Way of deception by Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy first week on list 2 Millie a Book As dictated to Barbara Bush last week 1 weeks on list 2 3 get to the heart by Barbara Mandrell with George Vecsey last week 2 weeks on list 2 4 darkness visible by William Styron last week 5 weeks on list 5 5 bootleggers boy by Barry Switzer with Bud Shrake last week 3 weeks on list 4 6 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen last week 4 weeks on list 10 7 now you know by Kitty Dukakis with Jane Scovell last week 7 weeks on list 3 8 every spy a Prince by Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman last week 8 weeks on list 9 9 done to shoot its Only me by Bob Hope with Melville Shavelson last week .15 weeks on list 17 10 the politics of Rich and poor by Kevin Phillips last week 9 weeks on list 10 paperback fiction 1 the dark half by Stephen King weeks on list 2 2 presumed innocent by Scott Turow weeks on list 45 3 postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher weeks on list 2 4 Isle of View by piers Anthony weeks on list 2 5 Clear and present danger by Tom Clancy weeks on list 12 6 so worthy my love by Kathleen e. Woodiwiss weeks on list 13 7 oldest living Confederate woman tells All by Allan Gurganus weeks on list 2 8 silent partner by Jonathan Kellerman weeks on list 7 9 Nemesis by Isaac Asimov weeks on list 2 10 the pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett weeks on list 10 paperback non fiction 1 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten fall a new books Are on the Way october looks like a Good month for new releases. Following Are highlights of books scheduled to hit stateside stores this month. A first came a lonesome  then it was Billy the kid who captured Larry Mcmurtry a imagination. Now Mcmurtry returns to the wild West in a Buffalo girls a which stars calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill Cody. By Robert Fulghum weeks on list 46 2 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 363 3 from Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas l. Friedman weeks on list 8 4 among schoolchildren by Tracy Kidder weeks on list 4 5 i want to grow hair i want to grow up i want to go to Boise by Erma Bombeck weeks on list 6 6 a Brief history of time by Stephen hawking weeks on list 18 7 liars poker by Michael Lewis weeks on list 2 8 the Road from Coo rain by Jill Ker Conway weeks on list 4 9 exit the rainmaker by Jonathan Coleman first week on list 10 its always something by Gilda Radner weeks on list 15 paperback miscellaneous 1 the authoritative Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson weeks on list 2 2 toxic parents by Susan Forward and Craig Buck weeks on list 3 3 codependent no More by Melody Beattie weeks on list 109 4 the to Factor fat Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle weeks on list 22 5 Rand Mcnally Road Atlas by Rand Mcnally weeks on list 33 compiled by the new York times stars and stripes Best Sellers fiction 1 four past Midnight by Stephen King 2 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon 3 message from Nam by Danielle steel 4 hammerheads by Dale Brown 5 the Burden of proof by Scott Turow 6 the stand by Stephen King 7 Star trek prime directive by Judith and Garfield Reeves Stevens 8 Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman 9 get shorty by Elmore Leonard 10 killing mister Watson by Peter Matthies Sennon fiction 1 wealth without risk by Charles j. Givens 2 Dave Barry turns 40 by Dave Barry 3 men at work by George will 4 peril and Promise by John Chancellor 5 father son and co. By Thomas j. Watson or. And Peter Petre 6 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum 7 whereas Waldo by Martin Handford 8 barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar 9 done to shoot its Only me by Bob Hope with Melville Shavelson 10 websters ninth new collegiate dictionary Index a Dick Francis takes another pass around the race track in the mystery  a Colleen Mccullough a the Thorn Birds turns Back the clock to the roots of Western civilization in a the first Man in  a a Philadelphia fire by John Edgar Wideman is about being Black in White America. A Michael Stone a former Navy Seal in Vietnam is bored practising Law in upstate new York until the arrest of an animal rights activist allows him to put his old wartime skills Back into practice in a the Monkey handlers by g. Gordon Liddy. A the villain is Iran rather than Iraq but a the Gulf by David Poyer is a timely military thriller. Hartford courant a rip Van Winkle slumbers in a 19th-Century illustration by Felix .  writer rips Van Winkle David Germain associated press rip Van Winkle did not sleep the sleep of the enchanted snoozing 20 years away in the haunted Catskill mountains. The lovable rogue of Washington Irving a Story was a real Man who abandoned his wife and children to become an 18th-Century barfly in new York City claims playwright Steven press. Press a theater professor at dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie ., says rip was probably an alcoholic. Alcoholism was widespread because the tavern was a Community Center in those Days a lure to men with unhappy Home lives such As rips said press. Press is writing two musicals based on his version of rips Story. Both plays Are sympathetic to the plight of Dame Van Winkle and other wives abandoned by Drunken husbands. Through files gathered from museums and libraries press determined rip was born in 1727 near the Ulster county town of Gardiner. At 16, rips father died leaving the boy a Fortune in land and Cash. The carousing rip went on a 24-Ycar Binge and drank up his inheritance. In the meantime he married Dame Van Winkle a the she Devil of Irving a Story a and fathered two children. Dame Van Winkles efforts to Reform rip failed. One Day rip wandered off a and Here a where press version differs with Irving a Story. Irving had rip wander into the mystical catskills where the ghost of explorer Henry Hudson casts him into a 20-year sleep. According to press rip fled Home in 1767 and headed South on the Hudson River to new York City. There amid the dutch taverns rip lived off bar owners and patrons who came to hear his tavern songs and stories. His Long lost weekend had begun. After 20 years rips daughter found him performing a in a stage show billed As a the old  she took him Home and rip concocted the Story of his Long sleep to conceal his 20-year drunk from neighbors. Press rip died in 1818, when Irving was 35. Irving so sketch books a which contained a trip Van Winkle a was published in 1819. However historians and Irving scholars doubt press version. A a in a sure there were people at the time who fit that pattern a said Robert Wells an English professor who holds the Washington Irving chair at Union College in Schenectady  A there May Well have been people like rip Van Winkle who were drunkards and were irresponsible like that. But that a a Long Way from proving the Man really  october 7,1990 sunday to plus Page 17