Encyclopaedia Brittanica, requiescat in pace ...

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, bummer. Sore bummer for all those kids who don't get to grow up
> lost in those volumes.

I eventually read the 1973 World Book Encyclopedia in its entirety.
So far as I'm concerned, Richard M. Nixon is still president and
Beirut is "The Paris of the Mideast."  I was the first--and only--kid
on my block who knew who Stefan Zweig was:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchmendel ...