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...Books, July 4 issue, in the story of the present bestsellers, TIME states that the two best-selling books of the week at The Emporium's bookstore in San Francisco were Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand. I assume that you chose The Emporium as a store whose sales are representative of San Francisco as a whole, i.e., Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand were San Francisco's best-sellers last fortnight...
...show the relative popularity of fiction and nonfiction. 2) Most best-seller lists are limited to current novels and works of nonfiction, exclude children's books and reprints, which are included in TIME's list. Last month in the book department of San Francisco's Emporium, Ferdinand sold five times as many copies as The Yearling, although its total national sales are not equal to those of the ten national best-sellers...
...Francisco and Los Angeles together account for two percent of the U. S. book business. At the Emporium in San Francisco two children's books, Heidi Grows Up and Ferdinand, outsold popular novels; at Bullock's in Los Angeles The Yearling and The Citadel were crowded hard by Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Emily Post's Etiquette...
...been connected with brain testing (or, more technically, electro-encephalogram work) for more than three years at the Medical School. She did her undergraduate testing here in a modest emporium deep in the cellar of the Hygiene Building, an emperium which formerly served as a coal...
...worthy instructor is launching quite an enterprise, a future rival of Radcliffe he says. He expects to run five courses, some meeting in Boston at the Ritz and some meeting in the sanctity of his own emporium. He is keeping to have from ten to 15 maidens in each of the course. The subjects--music, art, literature, current events, and psychology...