Word: fenner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Children would rather read Tom Sawyer than The Rover Boys any day, if they had the choice. Miss Phyllis R. Fenner is sure of it, and she ought to know. For nearly 20 years tweedy, witty little Miss Fenner has presided over a remarkable library in the elementary schools of Manhasset, L.I. Miss Fenner has a sympathetic ear for what children really like, and her library is a favorite hangout of Manhasset moppets. In "Our Library" (John Day; $1.75), Miss Fenner explains: "Give the children the adventure they crave, but give them books written with sincerity and honesty...
...Miss Fenner's library has tot-size sofas and club chairs upholstered in red and blue, where her small customers may be found at all hours (even after school). Miss Fenner rarely sits at her librarian's desk. While children sign out their own books, she tours the bookshelves, listening gravely to criticisms of stories, helping choose books. She also runs a stamp club, a dramatic club (for acting stories), a library club (to help straighten books, stamp cards, etc.), a storytelling hour...
Like a diamond in a coal bin this week glittered the annual report of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, biggest of all Wall Street brokers (TIME, Aug. 4). Although the security business is awful, Merrill Lynch, which lost $308,000 in the last nine months of 1940, earned a smacking...