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The Upper Story spreads through two rooms. The larger contains glassware, cutlery, furniture, salt and pepper shakers of assorted shapes and sizes, and several unusual imported items. Part of the smaller room is used for a greeting card display shelf which features the bizarre humor of the popular intellectual sort...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Down to Earth | 1/27/1958 | See Source »

What Biologist Cornman wants to see is a concerted research effort to study everything in man's environment, on the chance that it would solve the riddle of many types of cancer for which the cause is still unknown. The project would resemble the mass screening, currently under way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer in the Air? | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Titans Leaning on Tots. This year the presses are turning out more than 350 million copies of juvenile books-nearly one in three of all books published in the U.S. Some 2,000 new titles are on the shelves, and sales are expected to top last year's record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grinch & Co. | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

One pillar of the mass publishers is the Stratemeyer Syndicate in East Orange. N.J., a fiction factory employing from 10 to 20 free-lance writers around the nation. Founded in 1907 by the late Edward Stratemeyer. who himself wrote under half a dozen pseudonyms, the syndicate's stable of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grinch & Co. | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

¶Many books no longer sit on shelves, waiting to be read. Nowadays, books -as well as plays and poems-speak out loud. For a survey of the latest of this sort, see BOOKS, The Spoken Word.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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