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Ultimate Weapon. In Palm Springs, Calif., after Georgia Mae Love hit her husband on the nose with a claw hammer, stabbed him in the arm with a steak knife, and tried to ram his truck with her Hillman Minx, police booked her for disturbing the peace, discovered a three-foot bullwhip in her brassiere...
Conservative photographers were not the only ones Hillman had to throw out of his store. "Five or six people went nuts in the store. Sometimes I had to call the police but most of the time I was able to handle them myself," he remarked. "I was a varsity wrestler at Swarthmore and well able to defend myself...
...Hillman's store soon needed space for expansion and he decided to move rather than commit himself permanently to New York. "It's a wonderful city, the most interesting on this side of the earth, fascinating, complex--but not a very good place to bring our child up," he stated. After a two year search Hillman and his wife settled on Cambridge as the new location. Their store opened here last spring...
...shop limits itself primarily to used scholarly books. "The man who wants a book on plumbing needs something far more useful for running the world than anything I carry," Hillman remarked. "There's no question of snobbery, it's just that I can't sell everything and the best place to draw the line seemed to be at my own interests...
...Hillman stopped talking for a moment and glanced around his shop, his gaze resting for a moment on a browser. "I sell a lot of books to people who come in not wanting anything in particular. One thing that always hurts, though, is to see someone come across a book he obviously wants and just as obviously can't afford. I remember all too well the times at Cornell when I went hungry to buy books...