Word: bookshop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George entered the U.S. In 1945, the Book-of-the-Month Club selected Anything Can Happen-a whimsical, owlish account in Georgian English of George's 20 years of life as an immigrant, dictated by himself, set down by his wife, Helen. Today, Helen runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa., and George spends "part of each day at a granite quarry working on an animal figure he designed to commemorate the plight of the world during the darkest days of the German advance...
When the first numbers of TIME arrived in Helsinki, a friend of mine immediately sent me a copy. Having read that first number, I walked directly to a bookshop and ordered TIME for a year. Since then the bookshops have started selling single copies of the magazine, and I am told that TIME is very popular...
Helen now runs the Moby Dick Bookshop in Allentown, Pa. George was shingling the roof of their nearby farmhouse when Helen heard that the Book-of-the-Month Club had taken Anything Can Happen as one of its January choices. (Selection by the Book-of-the-Month Club usually means at least $30,000 for the author.) Helen was afraid to tell him, fearing he would fall off the roof. When they told an immigrant friend that the Book-of-the-Month Club had taken the book: "Don't worry," said the friend, "it's not worth...
Asked how he was handling the 1944 buying rush, the manager of Scribner's Manhattan bookshop replied (according to Bennett Cerf in Try and Stop Me): "Oh, at 9 o'clock we just open the doors and jump...
...trouble with the Manhattan police. His publisher (Vanguard Press) was visited by four different parties of cops who professed to see a connection between Wayne Lonergan and Studs Lonigan. Later a cop from a prowl car tried shyly to buy a copy of the novel from a First Avenue bookshop. It was out of stock...