CULTURE FROM SLOT MACHINES
The nevvest thing* in gadgets is a literary slot machine. . Yes, the loffy gems of literature — and some not so Olympian — are joining a long list of mundane items such as chewing* gum, candy bars, peanuts, hand'kerchiefs, stamps and soft drinks sliding from the metallie mouths of coin machines. Developers of the device, optimistically foresee the tirne v/hen "50,000 "culture" machines in all parts of the country will 'be coughing out hundreds of thousands of reprints a day. The first such gadget has been plaeed beside a news stand in the basement of the Lincoln Building in Nev/ York. The literary dispenser stands four feet high and holds 96 immortals and "v/ho-dun-its." Publishers of vestpocket editions are ready to put the machine into bus terminals,, railroad stations, hospitals and stores if the public takes to coin-in-slot literature. "Culture for a quarter" is an appealing slogan but vest-pocket bibliophiles will soon tlose ■ interest if quarters have the same tendeiicy to get ^fcuck and fail to "produce*' as pennies do in the usuab&ubway slot machines.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5330, 17 February 1947, Page 3
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177CULTURE FROM SLOT MACHINES Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5330, 17 February 1947, Page 3
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