Women don't buy thrillers because, one bookstore manager said, "they often make the brain go dead."

Ferlinghetti and Shig Murao, the bookstore manager who had sold the book to the police, were arrested on obscenity charges.

Finally, a bookstore manager agreed to talk, but only after his customers were gone and he had locked the front door and pulled down the window shades.

What the bookstore manager and his neighbors would do in the army is a question many Israelis are asking.

"It's all about maintaining a pace at which you feel comfortable," said Mr. Phillips, a bookstore manager.

"People like to have a different world distinct from their daily life," said Shizuo Mori, a bookstore manager who writes poetry on the side.

When she was 17, her mother, who was a bookstore manager, agreed to let her take flying lessons.

Veronie Koopmans, the bookstore manager, found the party "too vague, too broad."

Chip Edmonstin, who was Fox & Southerland bookstore manager, manages our book department.

The majority of the threats, which usually have been telephoned to local bookstore managers in the New York City area, appear to be crank calls.