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Billings & Stover: 'First, Last, and Always a Drugstore...
More than 40 years ago, when Eleonora Duse was making her long faces and Weber and Fields their happy ones, a different sort of team was approaching its half-century mark with a very untheatrical announcement. “If you don’t know Billings and Stover,” said the notice, “this will introduce them.” But there was no need to be theatrical for this partnership was as familiar to Harvard students as the pump in the Yard and the new lecture hall across the way. Too familiar, perhaps...
This kind of homemade touch is part of the Billings & Stover formula—part nostalgia, part bizarre. At the cosmetics counter, for example, Madanian maintains a supply of old-school perfumes...
...time Madanian had hoped to keep Billings & Stover in the family for another generation. In fact, last summer her 12-year-old nephew put in time at the store as an apprentice...
...this winter she told him the days of Billings & Stover would have...