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- <text id=91TT0773>
- <title>
- Apr. 08, 1991: The Dope On Dan
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 08, 1991 The Simple Life
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 21
- The Dope on Dan
- </hdr><body>
- <p>By David Ellis/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> While much of the magazine-publishing business has been
- hit hard by the recession, one new publication is off to a
- smashing start. The Quayle Quarterly has watched its circulation
- leap eightfold in just a year. The Connecticut-based
- newsletter, dedicated to keeping "a watchful eye on the vice
- presidency," has become required reading for 16,000 political
- junkies. Co-founder Deborah Werksman insists that her magazine
- treats its subject fairly, and attributes its success to the
- ``high level of civic anxiety" about the man who could be
- President.
- </p>
- <p> Quayle's handlers apparently take the journal seriously as
- well. When Werksman appeared on the Phil Donahue show, G.O.P.
- mediameister Roger Ailes and vice-presidential spokesman David
- Beckwith were on hand to defend their man as a heavyweight.
- Letters to the editor run both pro ("He's doing the best he can
- do with what God gave him") and con ("a yuppie Frankenstein").
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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