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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...