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Marvin got on the trail several years ago when he stumbled across a volume of 14 Soler sonatas in a secondhand bookshop in California, immediately recognized them as "something different." He played the sonatas in recital, but suspected that they were heavily edited and set out (with the aid of a foundation grant) to track down the 50-odd additional Soler sonatas listed in musical dictionaries...
...vaudeville singer who warbled Will You Love Me in December as You Do in May?, later (1912) married the song's Greenwich Village lyricist, James J. ("Jimmy") Walker, onetime (1925-32) musicomedy mayor of New York, divorced him in 1933, retired to Miami Beach and opened a religious bookshop, had monthly requiem Masses said for Jimmy after his death in 1946; of cancer; in Miami Beach...
...code." A poet of sorts (he has published a slim volume entitled Mice), Gordon has not got much farther because he is usually too cold and hungry even to hold a pencil. Gordon's conscience allows him to earn about ten dollars a week as salesman in a bookshop-which doesn't leave much for even cheap cigarettes. Gordon's big question is not: How can I write better poetry, or how can I make a better world? It is simply: How can I make four cigarettes last two days...
That winter many members of the class attended the trial of bookshop proprietor James A. DeLacey who had been charged with selling a prohibited book at his student news stand. The novel was D. H. Lawrence's latest, "Lady Chatterly's Lover...
Your article "Respectable Paperbacks" [April 4] implies that quality starts at 95? in paperbound books and reaches 1,500 book shops. Actually, quality begins at 25?, reach ing 100,000 newsstand outlets, most of them in towns without a bookshop. I cannot believe that TIME would want . . . to imply that paperbound books on the newsstands are not respectable...