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...Time-consuming TV and the faster pace of modern life, feared the booksellers, would pre-empt serious reading. The book clubs with their vast mail-order lists and, most of all, the price-cutting discount houses were challenging the conventional bookstore. Leonard Schwartz, president of Manhattan-based Brentano's, predicted that many booksellers would not survive discounting...
...last year to $148 million, and this year they are expected to jump another 10% to 15%. How many of the books sold are actually read is a question beyond statistics. At any rate, booksellers, whose hardcover markup runs to 40% or better, are expecting a record fall. Brentano's Schwartz is admitting how wrong he was in a concrete way: he is doubling the size of his main store on Fifth Avenue, planning to add five more branches to the company's present...
...Survival. Americans now buy books from some 165,000 retail outlets, ranging from Chicago's giant Kroch's & Brentano's, which lists 150,000 titles, to the corner drugstores with their paperback racks. Of these outlets, 2,062 are traditional bookshops that sell both hardbacks and paperbacks, 352 are quality paperback stores (which do an $18 million-a-year business) and 882 are discount houses, department stores and supermarkets ($52 million annually). In addition, some 130 book clubs run up sales of $145 million a year, a trifling $3,000,000 below the general booksellers. Total...
Died. Heinrich von Brentano, 60, West Germany's benign, scholarly Foreign Minister from 1955 to 1961, a founder and former floor leader of Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party, who as minister enthusiastically echoed der A he's support for NATO and the Common Market, while quietly pushing his own vision of a "Christian Western Europe" that would share a single culture, religion and constitution; of cancer; in Darmstadt, Germany...
First of all, Erhard must find some way of quieting Adensur's ideological descendants with in his own C.D.U. These outspoken parliamentarians, led by former foreign minister Heinrich von Brentano and the swarthy Bavarian Franz-Josef Strauss, are suspicious of Erhard's foreign policy. They favor further exploration of Franco-German unity and would not mind an independent nuclear force for Germany. Their fear of concessions to the Russians became obvious in this summer's debate over ratification of the Moscow atom-bomb pact, when they directly opposed Erhard...