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Headed by Theodore J. Fraizer '41, the Willkie Club will make its headquarters at 2 Plympton street, site last year of a Communist bookshop. According to a statement by Fraizer, the Club intends to promote University rallies to "emphasize the issues of the election" and to support a drive for the registration of absentee voters...
LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS-Warren Angus Ferris-Rocky Mountain Bookshop, Salt Lake City ($3). At 19, Ferris joined a party of trappers that set out from St. Louis in February, 1830, and went to work north of Great Salt Lake. Ferris stayed alive for five winters. His journal, expanded when he got home to Buffalo and printed (1840-42) in the Western Literary Messenger, is one of the rarest and best documents of its kind; this is its first complete publication...
...Sullivan says our book sales are not sufficient to cover our expenses. This is quite true. Much of our income has been derived from the motion pictures and lectures the Bookshop has sponsored. This is the source of Mr. Sullivan's "Soviet gold." He says we pay too high rent. This is also true, and as a result the Bookshop is going to move at the end of the month to a less expensive location...
...believe the people of this community will be deterred by Mike Sullivan from reading what they want to read, hearing what they want to hear, seeing what they want to see. If the Holyoke Bookshop were to close, a whole range of social and economic thought would no longer be readily available in Cambridge. At a time of crisis when so many ideas are being reassessed, we feel that thin would be a serious intellectual loss. Bebe Stearns, for the Holyoke Bookshop...
...Note: The CRIMSON erred in giving the impression that there had been a police raid on the Holyoke Bookshop. It has since been learned that, instigated by patriotic Councilor Michael A. Sullivan, a plain clothes policeman visited the shop but found nothing objectionable. The Holyoke Bookshop is moving next month to new quarters on Plympton Street...