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...student with a liberal-arts degree who used to buy books because "they looked nice on the shelves," now subscribes to the Book Find Club and the Readers' Subscription, is an inveterate browser in the university bookshop. In the old days, says he, "I used to go home from the office, listen to my wife tell about her day, turn on the television, and go to bed. If my new attitude sticks, it would be criminal to go back to the old way. I've found there is so damn much I want to know...
...Hanover, N.H., aged 27; another in Brookline, Mass., aged 29. Of the 1,000-odd members in the American Booksellers Association, says its executive secretary, Joseph Duffy, less than half "are worth a book salesman's call." Department stores, book clubs, newsstands, drugstores and supermarkets are forcing the bookshop out of business...
...less experienced housewives, who had never before managed without ration books, were frankly baffled at the richness of the new territory that opened before them. TV screens worked overtime showing the subtle differences between top ribs and shell bones. Newspaper columnists turned epicure overnight, and at the Times Bookshop in Wigmore Street, the 93-year-old Mrs. Beeton's Cookbook, with its cautious presumption that eight pounds of steak should be enough to serve eight persons, once more took top place in the interest of browsers...
...Rust, 76, white-haired patriarch of the greeting-card business, was elected president and chief executive officer of United Printers and Publishers Inc., second largest U.S. greeting-card maker.-An ex-Colorado mining engineer, Rust quit his profession in 1906 to join his brother Fred in a Kansas City bookshop...
Special Interest. In Manhattan, the Studio Bookshop mailed out a list of 200 "new books of interest to all law enforcement officers," including Dr. S. J. Wiklers Your Feet Are Killing...