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...fact, it in effect bans the book from any public sale. If a dealer is warned of the obscenity of a specific publication, he will not in most cases make a distinction between an adult and a youth: he will simply lift the book and return it to the distributor, taking no chances...
Hollywood is morbidly jealous of TV, and TV broods itself into ulcers over the high costs of production-but Film Distributor Nat Sanders feels fine. Last year Sanders waded through a list of titles in the U.S. Office of Alien Property, found two old German pictures that many a moviegoer still remembers fondly: The Last Laugh (1924), with Emil Jannings, and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920). Sanders made a percentage deal with the Government, added a sound track with music and background noises, and opened his double bill last week in a small Manhattan "art" theater...
Without benefit of reviews from the New York critics, the pictures in the first week coined nearly four times as much money as the theater had been grossing-$4,700, as compared to $1,200. Moreover, Sanders, with Co-Distributor Sam Cummins, found that moviegoers seemed to prefer sure-fire old silent pictures to the latest Hollywood product: the crowds ("Longhairs, the average guys, and Park Ave.," according to Sanders) were overflowing; they were even applauding...
...TIME in the same period was Ben Eastman, the crack Stanford middle-distance runner. Eastman was 25 when he retired from track and took a job doing credit work with the Oakland Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co. In 1946, he opened his own business, the Atlas Equipment Co., distributor of Westinghouse air compressors in the San Francisco area. Now 41, he usually gets up to take a 6 a.m. jog of a half mile or so to keep in condition. Of the link between college and business careers, he says: "One thing track has done for me is that...
...emphasized that the University Libraries weren't trying to flout "advice" by Massachusetts State police that lending or sale of the book might make the distributor liable for court action...