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Pay-Back?: Publisher Lyle Stuart says all 100,000 copies of “Poison Pen: The Unauthorized Biography of Kitty Kelley” have been sent to the bookstores, but he doesn’t know who will buy the tell-all book by George Carpozi Jr. Though Stuart and Kelley were involved in a lawsuit over Kelley’s 1981 tell-all Liz Taylor biography, Stuart claimed “Poison Pen” is not a pay-back book: “There is no bad blood between us.” But he added: “I’m not her friend. To know her is not to like her.”

Pay Up: The name of a reputed Massachusetts mobster on a winning lottery ticket means he apparently won a share of a $14.3 million jackpot. State officials were almost certain one of the four players listed on the ticket in Friday’s “Mass Millions” prize was James (Whitey) Bulger, whom the President’s Commission on Organized Crime in 1986 called a “reputed killer, bank robber and drug trafficker.”

Chiller Child: Aaron Carmichael has never read a Stephen King thriller, but King has read one by the 11-year-old. Aaron’s short story was chosen by King as the winner in Disney Adventures magazine’s first annual scary story contest in Omaha, Neb., for 7- to 14-year-olds. Aaron writes of a boy who visits a neighbor’s house to collect earnings for mowing the lawn--until he makes a grim discovery.

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Child in Charge: As vice president of a holding company, Natalie Novik’s job description calls for her to assist in marketing, public relations, planning and supervising daily operations. But she’ll have to learn to walk first. Her mother, 28-year-old company President Lynn Hall, named the 7-month-old to the vice presidency of the Lynn Hall florist shops in Birmingham and Dearborn, Mich. “I just wanted to make her part of the company,” said mom.

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