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Lamont's lobby, said a fifth anniversary visitor last year, looks a good deal like a theater foyer. But, unlike theaters, which try to keep their turnstiles spinning, each night Lamont turns its checkout system into an immense glass-and-marble bottleneck...
...Lamont. Library officials have stated that "we would rather have a first-class library with limited hours than a second-class library with longer hours." Their concern is thus evident, as it was when they showed their willingness to cooperate with students in such past matters as Friday checkout times...
...Lamont can remain both a first-class library during regular hours, and a welcome if not glorified study hall afterwards. Checkout Desk Three could be manned by a smaller staff after 10, and the Desk One door could be closed at that hour. Similarly, there is no need to staff the Poetry Room after regular hours, so personnel costs could be cut further. Such a study hall system could even be extended to Sundays during the entire year...
Another of Miller's cover stories was on the Hartford Brothers of the A & P (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950), a grocery chain with which Miller is closely familiar. At the A & P supermarket where he and Mrs. Miller shop, girls at the checkout counters count them among the store's best customers. The Millers, you see, have eight children...
...nation's biggest dime-store chain snatched back. Near Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, an apartment-city of some 26,000 inhabitants, F. W. Woolworth opened a self-service store where shoppers picked prepriced wares from clerkless counters, supermarket fashion, toted them in fabric baskets to wrapping and checkout counters. Customers seemed to like it, said they saved time by not having to wait for a salesgirl. Woolworth, which finds it hard to get clerks, hopes it will make it possible for existing staffs to sell more goods-and sell them faster. If it does, Woolworth...