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...regardless of whether they're sex-starved or sincerely interested, all rosy-checked Wellesleyites who want to buy the book must produce official permission when they shove their $6.50 across the counter of the Hathaway House Bookshop in Wellesley...
...itch for the book was most notable among urban intellectuals and college students. (Wellesley girls were told at the campus bookshop that they could not buy a copy unless they came back with a written O.K. from a professor. None came back.) But there were plenty of other customers. In Kansas City, a grain merchant bought a copy for his mistress, wistfully wrote on the flyleaf: "I hope this will help you to understand me better." In Miami Beach, where no cabana was considered properly furnished without "the report," one playboy bought 50 copies and sent them...
...musty shelves, however, do not harbor copies of the Communist manifesto, but a collection of second hand books selling for half price. Samuel Morrill, son of a Boston mail-order house owner, has bought Tutin's with aspirations of making it the "most interesting bookshop in Cambridge...
Omar Khayyam, whose pleasantly fatalistic Rubaiyat was a campus favorite in the '90's, was now the best-selling poet at Smith College. The local bookshop reported further that T. S. Eliot (see Col. 3) was way down in fourth place: he trailed Elizabeth Browning and Kahlil Gibran...
After building up to a monumental state of disorder, Cahalys retains most of the characteristics of an Oriental bazaar, the due rugs and aromatic spices having been replaced by Pepsi-Cola and Kasanoff's Pumpernickel. As in an archaic bookshop, one of the merchants explained, "one of our clients is always finding something valuable. As long as order is maintained, you're always welcome to come in and browse around." Maybe you'll pick yourself up something old and rare-like a bar of soap...