TIME

Week of Sept. 7, 1959
"The mendicants of marijuana and mad verse were in the somewhat embarrassing position of monks whose liqueur sells too well," announces TIME. The beatniks "were starting to rake in the dough" as tourists snapped up their writings from the shelves of the recently expanded City Lights bookstore in San Francisco's North Beach.

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