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Under the Counter. To fight the clubs, many retailers shoved the regular trade editions of book club selections under the counter, refused to recommend them to their customers. Others, like Manhattan's big Brentano's bookstore, signed up clerks as Book-of-the-Month Club members, then peddled their books to customers at regular retail prices...
Texans bragged this week about a triumph of commerce-with a touch of culture. Dallas' Cokesbury Book Store staked out a claim as the biggest in the U.S. It made no difference to Cokesbury that Manhattan's Brentano's and Macy's disputed the claim. With hymn and prayer befitting its ownership by the Methodist Church,* and with typical Texasity, the block-long, five-story Cokesbury opened a three-story addition and plugged away at surpassing its sales of $1,635,000, profits of $140,000 during its last fiscal year...
With a little rudimentary research, he is able to trip up columnists who don't check their gossip. Thus when Dartton Walker asked in the Daily News, "Has Stanton Griffis, ambassador to Egypt, purchased the Brentano bookstores?" Columbine answered him in print: yes, 14 years...
...banker, a promoter and a tycoon. In 1920 he moved in on Lee Tire & Rubber Co. In 1933, with Atlas Corp.'s Floyd Odium, he acquired control of Madison Square Garden. He helped pull Paramount Pictures out of a $100 million hole, along the way picked up Brentano's book stores...
...Strauss Goes to Boston (music by Robert Stolz & Johann Strauss Jr.; lyrics by Robert Sour; book by Leonard L. Levinson; produced by Felix Brentano) opened Broadway's 1945-46 season without letting in much fresh air. An operetta about Johann Strauss (George Rigaud) headlining the great Boston Jubilee of 1872 and breaking hearts on Beacon Hill, it muffs the three real opportunities provided by the story. Far from conveying any of the devilish Strauss charm it babbles about, the book doesn't even billow with good lush operetta sentiment; it is just crushingly dull...