I got used to the feel of the softer lead, and a pencil snob was born. When the small stationery stores in midtown began to go out of business, our office became a customer of one of the big ...

Lipman, born in 1817 in Jamaica to Jewish parents ... Pharmacy (precursor to the University of the Sciences). Lipman’s pencil had an eraser that was inserted into the hollowed-out wooden ...