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Phillips Brooks House again enters the second-hand book market, today with more than 200 volumes ready for sale. Prospective buyers and sellers can leaf through the wares from 2 to 5 p.m. each afternoon, P.B.H. Exchange Chairman Herbert W. Niehaus '52 announced last night...
...same as last spring's. Students with used books can bring them to P.B.H., price them, and put them up for sale. Thus, sellers usually obtain more for their used texts than they would get from booksellers, while the buyers usually find prices lower than in the ordinary second-hand stores. P.B.H. makes no profit on the transaction...
...more than 15 years, the venetian-blinded office among the second-hand stores had served as Democratic headquarters for Kansas City's Second Ward. The address, after Fifteenth Street was renamed in 1949: 716-718 Truman Road. But things had never been the same since the morning of April 6, 1950, when the bullet-riddled bodies of Gangster Charlie Binaggio, boss of the district, and his chief henchman, Charles Gargotta, were found there. At party meetings, somebody was always pointing out exactly where Binaggio's body was found (facing the big portrait of Native Son Truman), and where...
...desperation, Fred bought a batch of 28 books at a sale for 8s., cleaned them up and hawked some of them around the second-hand shops in a sack. At day's end, Bookseller Bason had made enough profit (15s. 8d.) to convince him that a load of second-hand books and some stout burlap were all a true bookworm needed to "make a living and be free...
...Currently, he has three: a second-hand 1948 Lincoln Continental; a Chevrolet convertible and a new Muntz Jet, which has an aluminum body, a Cadillac engine and a top speed of 140 m.p.h...