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Sophocles N. Zoullas '89 escaped injury, but he lost $10 and his Rolex watch. The robbery occurred at 9:30 p.m. on Plympton St. in front of Adams House...
Other Square institutions you shouldn't miss are Elsie's (71 Mt. Auburn St.), the home of both the "Big Burger" and the "Roast Beef Special," and Tommy's Lunch, (a the corner of Plympton and Tommy's Lunch, (at the corner of Plympton and Mt. Auburn Sts.) the favorite place for late might (open until 2 a.m.) lovers of cheese steak and pinball. And the trappes (Bostonese for milkshake) are good and thick. Theu, of course, there's the Mug and Muffin (1382 Mass. Ave), a good place to watch the locals and overhear pretentious conversations taking place...
...those who crave book-hunting adventures and are not disposed to claustrophobia, there are several used book specialists with popular and obscure titles. Aisles are narrow here, but lighting at McIntyre and Moore Bookshops (30 Plympton St.) is enough to allow reading. Fairly academic volumes line the shelves, and it sports large literary criticism, philosophy and medieval history sections. Across the street is the Starr Bookshop (29 Plympton St.) nestled in the east end of the Lampoon Castle. It's got two floors of mostly scholarly texts...
...tired of Plympton St., head over to The Book Case (42 Church St.). Look in the six-by-six foot "Room A" for occult books, "Room B" for religion, and go to the store's Annex (33 Church St.) if you don't like reading in the dark. The Pangloss Bookshop (65 Mt. Auburn St.) is another sure bet for cheap used books, especially in the social sciences...
...Marxist and Third World literature, check out Revolution Books (1 Arrow St.). Schoenhof's Foreign Books (75 Mt. Auburn St.) recently opened at this expanded location. This foreign language buff's paradise will send away for rare titles, just as the Grolier Book Store (6 Plympton St.) will take special orders for poetry books...