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...pictures that are most effective are those that come closest to being traditional portraits. In the photographs of Gordon Carnie, the late owner of the Grolier Book Shop, on his birthday; writer Eila Kokkinen; and Andrew Wylie '70, something essential and characteristic has been extracted and made permanent in a satisfying formal statement. The figures are posed and fill the entire frame--conscious of being photographed, yet at ease with the photographer...
Gordon Cairnie, owner of the world-famous Grolier Book Shop at 6 Plympton Street, died Friday, July 13 at 6 p.m. at his Belmont home. He was 77 years...
...opened his shop with 2800 books he had accumulated as a student, and ran it until his death. The Grolier, which specialized in poetry, was one of the last of the cafes for literati. Marianne Moore, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsburg, James Tate Robert Bly '50, Conrad Alken '11, Robert Graves and Richard Wilbur often frequented the cozy one-room shop...
...fool came to him with an offer to buy the shop. As Gordon told it, and I hope it wasn't true, this guy offered to buy out the shop, lock and stock--I don't think Gordon owned a barrel--for $600. Then, with the benefit of the Grolier's location, and Gordon's good will, he proposed to open Harvard Square's first porno book store. Gordon threw the damn fool out, God bless him, and went on running the shop till the day he died...
Perhaps they can keep the store going, but that's not the point, is it? I must have been there 200 times in my five years, but I only bought a dozen or two books. No one ever went to the Grolier for books...