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Anthony J. Carroll '74, of Lowell House and Old Brookville, N.Y., Sackbut; Charles C. Wyman '75, of Winthrop House and Brookline; Hautboy; Steven R. Sears '74, of North House and Montevallo, Ala., Treasurer; Norman J. Fleming '75, of Eliot House and North Andover, Advertising Manager; Peggy J. Yanow '74, of Lowell House and St. Louis, Mo., Business Manager; and David B. Danner '75, of Lowell House and West Newton, Theorbo...
Some American place names have a unique resonance about them-places like Maggie's Nipples, Wyo., or Greasy Creek, Ark., Lickskillet, Ky., or Scroungeout, Ala. Collectors of Americana also savor Braggadocio, Mo., the Humptulips River in Washington, Hen Scratch, Fla., Dead Irishman Gulch, S. Dak., Cut 'N Shoot, Texas, Helpmejack Creek, Ark., Bastard Peak, Wyo., Goon Dip Mountain, Ark., Tenstrike, Minn., Laughing Pig, Wyo., Two Teats, Calif., or Aswaguscawadic...
...think it is quite fitting that Jay Cooper, the descendant of a Confederate general, is now the mayor of Prichard, Ala...
...When a patient's symptoms point to a definite, diagnosable disease, the treatment-surgery, drugs or other therapy-is often obvious. But what should a doctor do when the symptoms add up to no known ailment? Dr. Joseph Sapira, a Birmingham, Ala., internist, believes the physician definitely should not dismiss the complaint as imaginary. Instead, he should try "reassurance therapy," and in the Annals of Internal Medicine Sapira tells how to administer it. The first step, he says, is to elicit a detailed description of the symptoms; the next is to ascertain how they affect or concern the patient...
...Some two months ago the steeple of the red-brick Hobbs Street Church of Christ in Athens, Ala. (pop. 14,000), was sliced in two by a bolt of lightning. This may have been prophetic, for now the Hobbs Street congregation is split just as surely, and all because of a bathing suit. The one-piece white swimsuit was worn by nubile blonde Becky Marshall, 17, as she won a Fourth-of-July beauty contest to name "Miss Spirit of America." Trouble was, Becky's father, Charles Marshall, was the minister of the Hobbs Street church. Aghast, the elders...