Word: newsstande
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...first time I asked directions, an old lady at the newsstand in front of Grand Central Station shrieked: "You dumb freak! Freak! Can't you read? Read the goddamn sign!" Right then and there I knew I'd stepped into the big league city without...
...they are subjected, the drugs they might pick up at school, the smut for sale on the drugstore newsstand and the neighborhood movie screen. For too long no one has seemed to care about the Middle Americans' concerns. They have felt ignored while angry minorities dominated the headlines and the Government's domestic action. If not ignored, they have been treated with condescension...
Both the new stores have good selections and should prosper. Passim is a novel, relaxing place to browse, and Reading International is a more comprehensive book store which also offers a newsstand collection of periodicals. AILEEN JACOBSON
Brought up in poverty by his widowed mother, Chicago-born Stone started selling newspapers at the age of six; by 13 he owned a newsstand and had read almost every Horatio Alger book. He switched to selling insurance at 16, and four years later started his own agency with $100 in capital. Remaining in debt to force himself to work hard, he recruited a group of 1,000 agents across the country by the time he was 30. In 1939 he founded a company that later became Combined...
...1950s, the Post suffered a severe attack of television, which in a single electronic flash pre-emoted the role of family entertainer. Whittaker Chambers' "I Was the Witness" and Veteran Pete Martin's "I Call On" interviews with celebrities set alltime records for newsstand sales, and circulation grew to 6,000,000; but it was a lowest-common-denominator readership. Advertisers lost faith in the Post audience and moved their accounts to TV or to more modern or specialized publications...