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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Snails 'n' Squabs
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Date: 1 Dec 88 08:20:14 GMT
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Elmer Rice was originally a journalist in Boston.  He later raised pigeons,
selling breeding stock and supplies.  In 1938, he wrote the first edition of
HOW, a book whic described, in great detail with lots of stories and anecdotes
thrown in, the operation of a small business raising pigeons for meat.  I
think this is best book on business administration ever written.  It is
written for about a high school-level mentality, but with such wit and genius
that it really stands out as an uncommon achievement in the art of 
propaganda.  I felt like building a coop and raising pigeons myself after
reading it.

His company was called Plymouth Rock Squabs or something.  Located in Melrose
Massachusetts.  His stock was called White Kings (or PR White Kings).  In his
book, he tells how he came to be owner of this fine breed of bird.  

(There's another Elmer Rice, contemporary, who wrote Broadway plays.)