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...There was one miserable dress shop not even any good for emergencies, and the news-stand at the corner was a meeting place, as well," Wallach says. "The best place was St. Clair's, an ice cream parlor where all the literary and drama people sat all day over their one cup of coffee...
...Town News, a Harvard Square landmark showcased in everything from postcards to the opening scenes of "The Firm," is being sold to outsiders, the news-stand's owner announced this weekend...
...been worth the trouble in comic relief alone. Newspapers outside Harvard who have been desperate for college pranks and riots jumped on the story as an unmistakably hot property. The Globe caught on right away, and United Press International followed, claiming that sales had already begun at the Union "news-stand." Then the Times converted the UPI dispatch into a judiciously subdued couple of inches--all this within two days of when the story first appeared...
...which is very embarrassing to the news-stand reader looking for a chuckle of escape between the New York Times and the radio broadcast. This is Lampy's comedy ethic--to laugh at the aberrations of modern...
...Confidential continues to use the mails and increase its circulation, already the largest in news-stand sales of any magazine in the country. Despite the derogatory comments which the press makes, it appears that Harrison's 1951 brainstorm will net him even more money in the future. The only people who can hurt Confidential are the purchasers of the magazine. That they will cease to buy each copy seems extremely unlikely...