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...friendship with Gordon C. Cairne, the shop's proprietor. In his autobiography Aiken speaks of his visits to the Grolier as some of the most refreshing moments spent in the Square. Joseph Alsop, New York Herald Tribune columnist, spent his undergraduate hours slouched in the shop's overstuffed sofa. Cairnic remembers him as "one of the fattest Freshmen ever to enter Harvard." T. S. Eliot was surrounded by querying students the first time he entered the shop. He answered a few of their questions and scurried out of the shop alluding to an appointment...
...Cummings, Theodore Spencer came into the Grolier. Spencer wanted to continue the interest in Cummings stimulated by the Wake issue with an exhibition of the lower case poet's paintings. Rather than show the art works in one of the Houses, Spencer wanted to use the bookstore, Cairnic consented and for a week the tawny walls and long rows of closely-packed books were hidden by Cummings' impressionistic works...
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