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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...
...such a thing. Eighty-five dollars bought a rocking horse, carved by some boy's loving father, which had doubtless earned over a million dollars in fantasy races. Best in show, perhaps, was an iron weather vane in the shape of a rooster, presented by an appropriately named antiquarian, Myra Tinklepaugh. "They're hard to find," Mrs. Tinklepaugh briskly allowed. "I'm dickering for another one right now, not far away, only nobody wants to climb up to get it without insurance...
...ones he kept were played so often by the singers themselves that they were nearly worn out by the time Mapleson gave up recording (in 1903) and stored them away. The dust-covered cylinders were unearthed in 1937, shortly before Mapleson's death, by a diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam, of Bridgeport, Conn., and some were transferred to 78-r.p.m. disks. These, plus several other Mapleson cylinders never before released, are on a new LP put out by the International Record Collectors' Club, of which Seltsam is founder and president...
...Antiquarian. In Louisville, Used-Car Dealer James McEwen reported that a thief broke into his office, took the ignition keys to 14 automobiles, drove off with "the worst car on the lot-a 1942 model worth...
Atmosphere Burden. Other ardent esthetes joined in peppering Italy's press with antiquarian indignation. But instead of inciting their fellow countrymen to mass revolt, Cederna and his followers succeeded only in setting most Italians to wondering just how far a nation could go in preserving a dead heritage. "The tribute we Romans pay to the past is rapidly becoming an almost unbearable burden," wrote one Italian professor. "Our narrow old streets keep traffic down to a snail's pace, but any thought of widening them is quashed by the magical words, 'historical atmosphere.'" A suggestion...