THE BEAT GOES ON

Everybody knows that Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind was one of the biggest best sellers of all time. Fewer people, however, know that Ms. Mitchell was killed by a hit-and-run driver while crossing the street in Atlanta, Georgia. How many people know that Jacqueline Sussann, apparently feeling that the success of Valley of the Dolls was not contributing enough to her status as a legend, once flew down to Atlanta and went to that very same streetcorner and hired some guy to drive up and nudge her with his bumper?