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Many HRDC members said students would not be involved in significant numbers to make up for the reduction in undergraduate stage time at the Loeb and access to the Loeb's shop facilities...
Another objection to Brustein's plan students have voiced is that the professional company would pre-empt undergraduate use of Loeb facilities. The agreement between Harvard and the repertory company should guarantee that House drama groups will continue to have access to the Loeb shop and technical advice from its staff. Brustein proposes reducing the number of undergraduate productions at the Loeb from four to seven a year--but House drama societies, as well as other groups like the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society and the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, would continue to provide the lion's share of student...
Konrad added that students would not be working in significant numbers with the repertory to make up for the reduction in undergraduate stage time at the Loeb and access to the Loeb's shop facilities...
These big companies operate with a cold efficiency that astounds the oldtime booksellers, who often take a warm proprietary interest in their wares. Highly computerized Dalton, which carries about 30,000 titles in each shop, assigns every book a number; when the book is sold the number is entered through the cash register into a computer, which produces a weekly report on what every store in the chain has sold. Slow-moving titles are quickly culled. Most chains concentrate almost exclusively on bestsellers-novels, selfhelp, biographies and the like...
...might like. Against this, Dalton offers a plethora of autograph parties featuring such guests as Charlton Heston and former Treasury Secretary William Simon, and some selective discounting. Like many independents, Carl Kroch, the chain's president, insists there will always be a place for the old, full-price shop. Says he: "You can't provide our kind of services on such a large scale. Besides, there's room for everyone. The public is still underexposed to books...