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Last week many a Manhattan publisher, sucking at his pipe, pondered just such a professional. One of Manhattan's youngest publishing houses continued to tick off sales of America's No. 1 non-fiction best seller. That publishing house is Alliance Book Corp. Its best seller is Jan...
Henry Koppell, who was born in Berlin, is a businessman whose business happens to be publishing. At 16 he had to make money. With characteristic literalness he got himself a job in the place where he saw the most money being handled-a bank.
In 1914 he went to war, got the Iron Cross and malaria, never was wounded. Back in Berlin, Koppell was hired by a kinsman who owned a printing establishment, A.
When the inflation hit Berlin, it seemed perfectly obvious to Koppell that the way to make money in an inflation is to print it. So he called on the Government, landed a contract to print paper marks. "We got through the inflation by paying ourselves," says Koppell. Often the printer...