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...sure exactly how we picked the name 'Pangloss' for the store," said owner Herb Hillman. "Partially, I suppose, because it has literary associations, partially because it sounds nice. In addition, however, one has to be a convinced optimist to go into the antiquarian book business. Book-selling has many rewards--but none of them are financial...
...Hillman arrived at his Massachusetts Avenue store by a route that includes Swarthmore, Cornell, Europe and Greenwich Village. After graduating from Swarthmore in 1947 with honors in zoology, Hillman went on to graduate school at Cornell. He studied there for a year, teaching comparative physiology to help make ends meet. Then he managed to get away to Europe--"I was sick of Cornell and of American universities in general." Hillman spent a year at Glasgow University and two summers travelling before he returned to Cornell. It was only a term before he left again, this time permanently...
...suppose I'd been around universities too long," he said, "I was just fed up with them and had a chance to go into the book business with a friend who needed help." Hillman worked for six months with his friend and then decided to break up the partnership and open his own store...
...store, on MacDougal Street in N. Y.'s Greenwich Village, was staffed by Hillman and his wife Bunny, whom he had met at Cornell. "We got the reputation of being an off-beat book store," Hillman recalled. "National magazines came occasionally to try and do a story on an avant garde Village store but I usually discouraged them. I remember once a photographer from Coronet wanted to take pictures of the shop but asked me to take down our 'Joe Must Go' banner before he began shooting. I threw...
...intermission with the old Cash-in club that was "loaned" to him nine years ago by a public-links pro back home in Memphis. Dentist Taylor managed to keep in contention until the 24th hole, then he began to come apart. Racking up pars and birdies with ease, Lieut. Hillman Robbins won himself the U.S. Amateur championship, 5-and-4. Said he: "I don't reckon I'll ever give that putter back...