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...granite precedent was shattered, a male stronghold crumbled, and stock trading was enlivened last week when a woman went to work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for the first time in 150 years. She was good-looking, young (18), auburn-haired. But Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane - the brokers she represented-guarded against too great a panic by garbing her plainly in a tannish gabardine uniform. Even so there was excitement, and will be more. For Helen Hanzelin, until three months ago a junior in Long Island City's Bryant High School, is only...
...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...
...Miss Fenner long ago gave up trying to explain to her youngsters why Tom Sawyer is a good book and Tom Swift not. She just makes the good books sound interesting so that the kids start reading them. To introduce Uncle Tom's Cabin, she tells her children that it started a war. When a seven-year-old demands "a good murder mystery," Miss Fenner suggests Freddy the Detective: it generally turns out to be just what he wanted, though it has no murders and Freddy is only a pig. Titles, says Miss Fenner, are important...
...Miss Fenner has no must list for child reading, observes: "When you come right down to it, there are precious few children's books that one couldn't live without." Still favorites, says she, are Tom Sawyer, Black Beauty, Pinocchio, Treasure Island, Grimms' Fairy Tales. But many modern stories are popular...
...Miss Fenner recommends as "good books to read aloud in family groups": Hugh Lofting's Story of Doctor Dolittle, Margery Bianco's Street of Little Shops, Walter Brooks's To and Again, Kenneth Grahame's Wind in the Willows, Howard Pyle's Robin Hood and Wonder Clock, Arthur Chrisman's Shen of the Sea, Stephen Benét's Book of Americans...