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...echo in her playing. One blue night in Paris, "the badness" overwhelmed her; she got up from the piano and quit jazz cold. She drew up a list of names to pray for (urgent cases marked in red), and before long she had an endless coil of sadness, an encyclopedia of bad trouble, a roll of death and dishonor. For years there was nothing for her to do but pray...
...Fabbris have branched into other countries and have also begun to publish some volumes whole, but the installment principle remains their biggest asset. Last month they brought out an installment version of an art encyclopedia in Britain, and last week in Italy they introduced a "House and Kitchen" encyclopedia. Though even runaway bestsellers seldom draw as many as 50,000 buyers in Italy, the Fabbris are currently selling 1,000,000 installments a week, including 300,000 copies of The Divine Comedy. Issued at the rate of one canto a week for 100 weeks, the full series will cost...
...Comedy are not generally thought of as cliff hangers, but that is just what they have become to millions of Italians. Each week readers rush to the newsstands-which also prominently display dozens of girlie publications-to buy magazine-like booklets that contain installments from a classic or an encyclopedia. The idea of dispensing culture in weekly dollops has brought a fortune to the three Milanese publishers who conceived...
...textbook company after World War II. Shrewdly figuring that Italy's growing middle class had both an urge to learn and an eagerness to buy almost anything on the installment plan, the Fabbris decided to turn out books that sell like magazines. Their first offering, a four-volume encyclopedia issued in 48 weekly installments at 350 each, has been translated into 40 languages and has attracted 3,000,000 customers. The Fabbris followed up with serialized encyclopedias of science, sport, fairy tales and the arts, prepared by a staff of 600 writers, artists and specialists...
Deep in the Forest Sauvage some 1,400 years ago, Merlyn the Magician shared a cluttered cottage with two hedgehogs, six grass snakes, a stuffed phoenix, a buzzing beehive, six pismires, the Encyclopedia Britannica (14th edition) and countless wonders for the eyes of Wart, the boy who was to become King Arthur...