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...fact, the study will have done the nation a service if it does nothing more than stir up meaningful debate. That it already is doing. So intense is public interest in its findings that a soft-cover version published by Bantam Books is already well on its way to the bestseller lists. In what a company spokesman called "the most phenomenal sale of any book in recent years," the report sold at a clip of 100,000 volumes a day in its first three days...
...From Bantam to Pro. In Canada, where hockey precocity is commonplace, Bobby Hull was a stick-out from the day he played his first Bantam League game, in Belleville, at the age of ten. There are seven levels of competition in Canada-Peewees, Bantams, Midgets, Juveniles, Junior B's, Junior A's and Professionals; Hull skipped the Peewees, Midgets and Juveniles. Officially. Actually, confides Pringle, who played against him in the Bantams, Bobby freelanced. When the Bantam game ended, he would tighten up his laces and join a Midget team in the next game. After that was over...
Sometime in the middle of January, a Bantam salesman made the rounds of Harvard Square bookstores to peddle an item called The Harrad Experiment. It was sure-fire, he said, light, sexy and with a Harvard-Radcliffe angle; a natural for post-exam period. The Coop ordered 500 copies, the Harvard Book Store got in 200, the rest followed suit. And a quick check this week revealed that sales were every bit as good as the man from Bantam predicted. So there's really no point in telling you what the book is about. You've all read...
...When people talk about compulsory national service," says Milton J. Friedman, the bantam cock of conservative economics, "it brings to mind Hitler's Jugend. It's so much warmed-over collectivism packaged to look like draft reform...
Bronzes & Bullets. Now that he had sold himself, he hired a pressagent to ballyhoo him as a "Bantam Barnum," a "Mighty Midget" and the "Basement Belasco." He went on to produce eleven Broadway shows (including Jumbo, Carmen Jones'). He opened a restaurant and a nightclub (Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe). He ran the Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair. He became a syndicated columnist, peddling a unique amalgam of show-biz snappy sayings and schmalz. He collected art the way other people collect neckties-he once tried to buy the Metropolitan Museum...