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...biggest growth in bookselling is occurring in the suburbs; of 149 stores opened last year, 60% were in the suburbs. "The real success stories," says Scribner's Kropotkin, "are found in the shopping centers, where stores are having to double their size overnight to accommodate the demand." Doubleday, Brentano's, and Kroch's have located most of their recent additions in suburban areas. Booksellers estimate that 40% of the population lives outside the range of present bookstores, feel that this is the area of unlimited expansion...
...Clara accused her former secretary Daisy DeVoe of embezzling $16,000 from a special account. Miss DeVoe counterattacked with a long list of her employer's love affairs. Paramount Studios abruptly canceled her contract, and overnight she was through in Hollywood, a has-been...
...bought up or signed exclusive contracts with 500 jobbers. Those who hitch to Bluhdorn's wagon get several advantages: G. & W. gives them national advertising, marketing advice and long-term credits. Most important, it sells wholesale parts made by other manufacturers as well as its own, and promises overnight delivery...
...Hope? Such criticism?coming mostly from Catholic perfectionists who want an overnight change in the church ?appears somewhat overanxious. Paul's penchant for warning against excess seems to be largely an expression of his cautious and gloomy nature. Last week, for example, on a visit to the catacombs of Domitilla, he compared the persecuted Christians of old to those who today live in "nations with atheistic and totalitarian" governments. "I sometimes wonder if Paul isn't lacking in the virtue of hope," says one Jesuit...
...continually induced his readers to produce their own images, to feel in their bodies what appeared on the page. At 22, in a violent convulsion of composition, he produced a five-act farrago called Götz von Berlichingen that read like second-rate Shakespeare but made him famous overnight as a leader in a new literary movement called Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress...