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...eager contestants have removed source books from their proper places on the shelves, hidden them where no one else could find them. Copies of the WPA's guide to New York state have not only disappeared from the library and most of its 80 branches; its price in secondhand bookstores has soared to as much as $100 a copy. Said a harried librarian: "One day the clue had to do with Mormons and we just had to remove, the three trays in our card catalogue dealing with Mormons...
...always called Nip because he drank so much milk as a baby) began subscribing to TIME in 1945. He would read it first, then pass the copy along to Nap (christened Walter but always called Nap because he slept so much as a child), who finally got tired of secondhand copies and bought a subscription...
Outside the Chicago Maternity Center, in the sweltering slums just south of the Loop, sidewalk vendors hawk their wares: secondhand suits, used razor blades, bottles of Dr. Pryor's Jinx Removing Bath Crystals. After dark, dope pushers, prostitutes and gangs of toughs prowl the soiled asphalt. Yet, unlike cops and truant officers, center staffers are seldom molested in the neighborhood. Even the hoods greet them on their rounds...
...University when he entered the secret service, rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel and claims to have been a big espionage wheel, but his book and his personal history betray him as more of a pinwheel. In The Secret Front, he twirls about in windy draughts of gossip, secondhand information, hero worship, pure invention and long-fermented spite...
...Browser. Dichter was born in Russia and moved with his family to the U.S. when he was eight. When he finished grade school he went immediately to work, but he kept a taste for books. Browsing in secondhand shops, Dichter learned that there was money in rare editions. While other waiters took their money to bookies. Harry diligently invested in books. For a while he operated his own shop by day. waited on tables by night. He became interested in American music, read all he could find on the subject...