Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...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...
When fiery, brittle little Kamejiro Senaga was elected mayor of Naha last year, conservative Okinawan businessmen and U.S. authorities immediately went to work to unseat him. Senaga, an ex-journalist who ran a general store as a sideline to his job as mayor, had already served 18 months of a two-year jail sentence for harboring a wanted Japanese Communist, and was widely regarded as a Communist himself...
...Morris as vice president in 1954, when it bought Benson & Hedges. Member of a wealthy tobacco family (Manhattan's Cullman Bros. Inc.) that owns some 80,000 shares (2.5%) of Philip Morris common stock, Joe Cullman graduated from Yale ('35), worked as a $15-a-week cigar-store clerk and a cigar maker in Cuba before joining Webster Tobacco Co., where he became Eastern sales manager in 1938. After four years in the Navy during World War II, he went to Columbia University with the idea of becoming a history professor, instead joined Benson & Hedges as vice president...