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Bonbons & Books. The man who put this golden formula to work in the U.S. is nervous, precise Harry Scherman, 59, a onetime free-lance writer. When he flopped at that, he went into advertising. For a client, he devised a plan to give away pocket-sized classics with each box of candy, was amazed to find later that 1,000,000 classics a year could be sold for 10? apiece without candy...
Correspondent Elmer Lower arose in a 175-franc room in the Scribe Hotel, breakfasted for 20 francs, spent the morning running to & fro in Paris with Dave Scherman taking pictures for TIME & LIFE. Velo taxis- 1000 francs. He lunched for 20 francs at the Scribe (no wine), spent 2 francs getting to the office on the metro, took a member of France...
...HARRY SCHERMAN...
Something big and new is happening to American thinking about taxes. This week the Committee for Economic Development launched an assault on the U.S. tax structure. In a 47-page brochure (expertly written by the Book-of-the-Month Club's Harry Scherman), the C.E.D. attempted to put a new face on the U.S. tax system, with full postwar employment as the criterion...
William Agar, vice president of Freedom House; Justice Ferdinand Pecora; President George N. Shuster, of Hunter College; President Harry D, Gideonse of Brooklyn College; Raymond Leslie Buell, former president of the Foreign Policy Association; Major George Fielding Eliot, John W. Vandercook and Sydney Moseley, commentators; Harry Scherman, president of the Book-of-the-Month Club; former Supreme Court Justice Jeremiah T. Mahoney; the Rev. Robert W. Searle, general secretary of the Greater New York Federation of Churches; Robert J. Watt, international representative of the American Federation of Labor...