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...British Poetaster Rowland Howard Wholesale street-corner thefts of St. Paul newspapers approached 1,500 copies every Sunday; every petty crook in town seemed anxious to make a killing by running the contraband across the Mississippi into Minneapolis. In Minneapolis itself, Mrs. Florence Kennan's butcher, as a favor to a good customer, slipped her a hot copy of the St. Paul Pioneer Press-wrapped to resemble a leg of lamb. Two people fainted in the crush of eager newspaper buyers around a downtown Minneapolis newsstand. Hyman P. Shinder's kiosk, the biggest in town, collected a crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No News Is Bad News | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

...present generation, Mussolini seems a semicomic ogre remembered most for his operatic posturings and his gruesome death-murdered with his mistress and strung by the heels like an undressed carcass outside a village butcher's shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragicomic Revolutionary | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

...years of encyclopedia selling. At the time he took over as national sales manager, recalls Harden, Great Books executives "felt there was a 2% cream on top of our society who were Great Books prospects-the eggheads." Countered Harden: "Let's go after the mass market-the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Services: Cashing In on Culture | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

Learn Now, Pay Later. To reach the butcher and baker, Harden set about building an indefatigable, door-to-door sales force. Operating out of Los Angeles, Harden set up a course at which new salesmen learned how to use the Syntopticon and to pronounce the names of the authors (reading them is not required...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Services: Cashing In on Culture | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...East 30th Street in Kips Bay, one of Manhattan's better-designed (by I.M. Pei) new buildings. Side by side with antiques that they picked up on foreign travels, the couple have put such odds and ends as a polarbear rug, a $10 coffee table and a butcher's table (in the dining room). To help soften the chilling effect of a lot of glass, including Shaw's mercury glass collection. Pat Suzuki introduced warm fabric colors, contemporary Spanish chests and floor pillows, and picked up a few Japanese items, e.g., candlesticks. Says she: "They were probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Living It Up | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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