Word: newsstands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year's net was down $2,251,155 from 1952), Garfinkle and associates spent millions to gain stock control of the company, biggest U.S. magazine distributor. Victor D. Ziminsky will stay on as president of the firm's wholly owned subsidiary, Union News Co., which runs newsstand and restaurant concessions as well as Manhattan's Rockefeller Plaza skating rink. As a boy, Garfinkle helped support his widowed mother by selling papers to Staten Island ferry passengers, built up a big independent newsstand network along the East Coast. He will try to fatten sales by reorganizing magazine...
People were turning more and more of their interest toward the things they knew best. A newsstand dealer in Dallas summed it up: "People are interested in little things again. For instance more and more of them are coming in here asking for home-town newspapers. Three years ago, they didn't give a damn. They just grabbed the nearest newspaper and looked at the headlines quick-to see were we in a war again, or maybe had the Commies walked off with the Capitol dome. Now it's important to them to know who's marrying...
Culture on the Newsstand...
Your article "Respectable Paperbacks" [April 4] implies that quality starts at 95? in paperbound books and reaches 1,500 book shops. Actually, quality begins at 25?, reach ing 100,000 newsstand outlets, most of them in towns without a bookshop. I cannot believe that TIME would want . . . to imply that paperbound books on the newsstands are not respectable...
...Lowell House, where thievery from the newsstand caused the sale of morning papers to be discontinued, Housemaster Elliott Perkins '23 said, "If a few people who don't belong at Harvard are going to take unfair advantage of the honor system, others will have to keep a check on them or give up the benefits of the plan. Students should have no inhibitions about turning in violators...