Word: encyclopedia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris court ruled that the public sale of an unexpurgated, 28-volume set of the complete works of the Marquis de Sade (TIME, Dec. 31) was an "outrage to morality." Paris Publisher Jean-Jacques Pau-vert, who had rashly tried to peddle "to specialists" the marquis' encyclopedia of all-out sadism, was let off with a $571 fine and a court order dictating that every last page of the pornography involved be destroyed...
...Collier's ran only 1,008 ad pages in 1956 v. 1,718 in 1951; in the same period, Companion advertising dropped from 945 pages to 544. Their losses turned a record $6,000,000 profit claimed by Crowell-Collier's book-publishing subsidiary (Collier's Encyclopedia, the Harvard Classics) into a $2,500,000 deficit for the company this year...
...just swamped with this mail from kids. Most of the information they ask for they could find in any World Almanac, sometimes even in a phone book." "Some of our teachers," says Executive Director Sherman Voorhees of the Pittsburgh chamber, "are delinquent." Instead of learning how to use the encyclopedia, "children are being taught the easy way out." Adds a Pittsburgh businessman: "If teachers insist that their students bother companies for information, why don't they have the courtesy to see that they do it right? If they'd tell the children how to write proper letters...
...mikes. Sixteen reporters, recruited at $125 a head, were ready to help TV Producer Martha Rountree launch her new NBC program, Press Conference. The object of all attention: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., invited by Moderator Rountree (at no cash fee: he got a 20-volume, leather-bound encyclopedia instead) to be the first of a series of key figures to be interviewed. There was a gimmick: Brownell was expected to make an important public announcement to kick off the show...
...phonograph-record division to Crowell-Collier, is shopping for a daily newspaper and in the last two months has bought six radio and four TV stations across the U.S., including a pair in Honolulu. Under his three-year regime, the company's profitable book division ( Collier's Encyclopedia, the Harvard Classics) is expected to double its business by the end of this year to an estimated $22 million in annual sales, and the company as a whole was able last year to show a small profit. "If we could have the magazines break even," he told a press...