Across the Editor's Desk

YOUR Editor--who is a very busy fella with a newsbeat of his own (the one he uses to feed the hungry mouths at home--his Grapevine stewardship is all for free and for fun)--phoned in from the middle (or thereabouts) of a hurricane he was covering to ask the assistant editor to pinch-hit for him in this corner. . .and the only thing on her mind, unseasonably enough, but that's how it is in the publishing world, is: