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...student with a liberal-arts degree who used to buy books because "they looked nice on the shelves," now subscribes to the Book Find Club and the Readers' Subscription, is an inveterate browser in the university bookshop. In the old days, says he, "I used to go home from the office, listen to my wife tell about her day, turn on the television, and go to bed. If my new attitude sticks, it would be criminal to go back to the old way. I've found there is so damn much I want to know...
...Browser. Dichter was born in Russia and moved with his family to the U.S. when he was eight. When he finished grade school he went immediately to work, but he kept a taste for books. Browsing in secondhand shops, Dichter learned that there was money in rare editions. While other waiters took their money to bookies. Harry diligently invested in books. For a while he operated his own shop by day. waited on tables by night. He became interested in American music, read all he could find on the subject...
There are only four shopping days left before study cards come due. By now the average browser has collected six to ten different reading lists and notes to first lectures and his head is buzzing with requirements and conflicts of requirements. Perhaps one of the following courses meeting this morning will be the saving ray of light in the gloom...
Like a bookstore browser hunting first editions, Marshall Field has shopped around the book business looking for a first-rate buy (TIME, Oct. 9). Last week he thought he had found it. Dipping lightly into the odd $168,000,000 in his pockets, Tycoon Field (publisher of New York's PM, Chicago's Sun, syndicated Sunday weekly Parade, owner of Cincinnati's radio station WSAI) bought smart Simon and Schuster, one of the top merchandisers in the book business, and Pocket Books, Inc., which was 49% owned by Simon and Schuster officials. Publisher Field kept the purchase...
Obviously, no uninterested servicemen would apply, and those that grasp the opportunity would have a memorable morning browsing around in Harvard's teachings. And while the browser is benefitting himself there are many classes, especially in History, Government, and Philosophy, where the greater breadth of the auditor's experience might add substantially to what the students themselves get out of the class...