Word: brentano
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Guest artists The Brentano String Quartet with violist Samuel Rhodes of the Juilliard String Quartet. Program to include Quartet in G Minor...
...About It. Cheery statistics of last year can no longer hide the sober economic facts of 1982: higher costs, escalating book prices and dwindling profits. "I haven't seen times like this before," confesses William McCarthy, buyer for the 20-shop chain of Kroch's & Brentano's bookstores in the Chicago area. "The book business is being hit by everything at once: a soft economy, cost increases and an uncertain audience...
...father figure, it is Norman Dacey, a retired estate planner who in 1965 spent $22,000 of his own money to publish How to Avoid Probate! He went door to door to bookstores in his home town, Bridgeport, Conn., and a few copies found their way to Brentano's in New York City, where the book was an instant success. Crown Publishers bought the rights, and Dacey shot to the top of the bestseller lists, ultimately selling 1.5 million copies. He was also No. 1 on many lawyers' hit lists. He was sued by the New York County...
...devised a sample of some 1,200 stores in cities across the U.S., balanced according to location, type of store and local sales volume. The group includes dozens of independent shops and mini-chains, the two largest U.S. booksellers (B. Dalton and Walden) and one middle-sized national chain (Brentano's). Each participating retailer has RICHARD WOOD agreed to furnish a portion of its weekly sales figures to our data-processing department, which maintains strict confidentiality about the numbers. Dessauer then worked out a formula that assigns a statistical value to each store, reflecting its representative role...
Turning 83, famed American Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson proved to be as vivace as the music he has written for every mode from concert hall to films over half a century. Tendered a birthday party at Brentano's bookstore in Manhattan, Thomson ignored the limousine that had been sent to fetch him from his apartment in the fin de siècle Chelsea Hotel and marched to the festivities on his own. He also chose stairs instead of an elevator and a hard chair rather than a soft one, but he did consent to pose at the piano with...