Word: bookshop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dunster House Bookshop case of 1930, for example, an agent of the Watch and Ward Society, posing as a customer, ordered and paid for a copy of the proscribed Lady Chatterly's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence. The proprietor was subsequently arrested and fined in a Cambridge District court; a higher court later refused to review the case, stating it was obvious the proprietor knew he was purveying "obscene" literature...
Essential to such a system of censorship is a feeling of cooperation. Most booksellers, according to Thomas M. Moroney, manager of the Old Corner Bookshop in Boston, are "...not interested in making cases out of these books. I'll admit frankly that I and my publishers are interested chiefly in making money. We don't want to get wound up in these things...
...least one bookshop in the Square may be acting as a fence for students and professional thieves, three bookstore managers said yesterday. All three report monthly losses from thieving which amount to hundreds of dollars...
...wife has retreated into a cocoon of neuroses. His brother-in-law is a shiftless drunk who pretends he can write, and his journalist daughter is a loveless prig. Sands's first homosexual buddy, a stage designer, has left him for a theatrical producer. His second, a young bookshop manager, is in the clutch of a possessive mother. Bernard Sands feels superior to the shoddy lot until he sees a fellow homosexual dragged away by the police-and suddenly feels ready to side with the law and "join the hounds in the kill...
Foyle now spends less time at his bookshop, leaves the day-to-day operations to son Richard, 42, and to daughter Christina, 40, who has inherited her father's flair for bookish ballyhoo. She presides over Foyle's monthly literary lunches, where new books are launched and authors are publicized. When Health Faddist Gayelord Hauser (Look Younger, Live Longer) appeared, she surrounded him with leaders of church, stage and business, and every one of them was over 80. Once when George Bernard Shaw was slated to speak, he was asked if he wanted a vegetarian menu. Said Shaw...