Word: schwartzes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Benjamin I. Schwartz '38, professor of History and Government, emphasized that in the long run, a monolithic world would be more dangerous than one split between separate powers. Furthermore, if the split persists with both sides denying the credentials of the other, "it may undermine the fundamental mystique of Communist doctrine...
...retail book trade in the U.S. Time-consuming TV and the faster pace of modern life, feared the booksellers, would pre-empt serious reading. The book clubs with their vast mail-order lists and, most of all, the price-cutting discount houses were challenging the conventional bookstore. Leonard Schwartz, president of Manhattan-based Brentano's, predicted that many booksellers would not survive discounting...
...million, and this year they are expected to jump another 10% to 15%. How many of the books sold are actually read is a question beyond statistics. At any rate, booksellers, whose hardcover markup runs to 40% or better, are expecting a record fall. Brentano's Schwartz is admitting how wrong he was in a concrete way: he is doubling the size of his main store on Fifth Avenue, planning to add five more branches to the company's present...
...courts as a debt-collection agency. To help constables rake in commissions as high as 50%, for example, such magistrates issue arrest warrants for "civil debt"-a result-getter that has been illegal in Pennsylvania since 1842. As soon as he took office in 1961, Magistrate Harry C. Schwartz incorporated the Active Collection Agency with his wife as president and Constable Abraham Siegel as treasurer. Magistrate Schwartz openly welcomes A.C.A. cases-and shares his wife's 50% split of the profits...
...forgot that Bogart was 25 years her senior when they married. As it turned out, she was wrong, but only by nine months. The birth certificate of Lauren Bacall, nee Betty Joan Persky, gives her date of birth as Sept. 16, 1924. As for Tony, the former Bernard Schwartz was born on June 3, 1925. Still, even an aging Lauren Bacall is younger than many of Hollywood's Beautiful People...