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...about a year ago, a 15-year-old boy in a small town in Massachusetts smuggled a small paperback into his house on his way home from school. It was only 95c, and he had heard from his friends that it was really a bargain at that price, so he thought he would take a look at it. the only trouble was that his mother happened to find it around his room, and she called a friend to tell her about her son's shocking purchase. This friend had a cousin who knew a lot about "dirty books," the mother...
...Nameless Woe. In a new paperback called The Gospel According to Peanuts (Knox; $1.50), Short contends that the cartoon, whose creator is a lay preacher in the Church of God of Anderson, Ind., is a modern variety of prophetic literature, full of useful parables for the times. For example, "the doctrine of original sin is a theme constantly being dramatized in Peanuts." When Charlie Brown gloomily confides to Linus that he has "been confused right from the day I was born," he sums up the "nameless woe" that is at the heart of man's predicament...
...some 35,000 items, including such new additions as hi-fi sets and frozen string beans. Woolworth's stocks diamond rings at $99.95, electric organs at $79.95 and canned Scottish pheasant at $6.98, has become the nation's largest retailer of records (40 million last year) and paperback books (15 million). Already the world's largest restaurant chain (1,706 luncheonettes), it is also planning to serve liquor in some of its "Harvest House" restaurants outside the stores. Grant's has auto service stations and prescription pharmacies, and both Grant and Woolworth now offer 24-month...
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