Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every old grad's log of college lore is a group of stories about the shops along Massachusetts Avenue and its one-way tributaries. A random few recall the laundry establishments; others various coffee shops, but in the Harvard reminiscences of many contemporary writers and poets, the Grolier book-store on Plympton Street crops up an unusual number of times...
Little has changed in the store since the exhibition. The position of the books has shifted somewhat and the dust on the walls has certainly increased but essentially the Grolier is the same as when it opened...
Many of their elders showed similar reactions. In Beverly Hills, Mathews, an expensive women's shop, moved into a new store with silk-lined walls, and sent out 1,000 charge plates made of 14-carat gold. In Galveston, one Joe Grasso flew into a swivet over the fact that two Texas pelicans died recently in the London zoo. "They were double-tough Texas pelicans-the toughest birds in the world," he cried, and were the victims of a "Communist plot to discredit Texas in particular and America in general...
...they'll all start thinking they're good as you or me. So I'm going to stop this thing. If somebody don't, a man can't say where it all would end." And he cut off Albert's credit at his store. Albert's own position was simple enough: "A white house...
...Those Days. In Cleveland, a burglar cut himself breaking in a window of Kovachy Bros.' auto-accessory store, labored long and hard trying to pound open a safe that was not only unlocked but empty, finally looted the store of its only cash-a $10 bill, which he absentmindedly dropped...