Word: schacter
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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President Harry Schacter of the Kaufman-Straus department store in Louisville was only an observer at the annual meeting of the Friends of Kentucky Libraries. But the facts he heard from the Friends disturbed him. In library service, he learned, no state except North Dakota ranks lower than Kentucky: 80% of its rural population gets no such service at all. By the time the meeting was over, Harry Schacter had an idea...
...last week Schacter's idea had mushroomed into the most high-pressured culture drive Kentucky had ever seen. Alben Barkley was in on it, and so were Happy Chandler, Senators Earle Clements and John Sherman Cooper, Novelists A. B. Guthrie and Robert Penn Warren. Chairmaned by Mrs. Barry Bingham, the energetic wife of the editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, the campaign was out to put Parnassus on wheels, get no bookmobiles circulating through the state. This week, in Nelson County, the first one was about to go into operation...