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Reagan was wrong in implying that Arlington National Cemetery is the soldier's burial place - Treptow is interred in Bloomer, Wis. - but right about his heroism. Treptow grew up in Bloomer and moved to Cherokee, Iowa, to work as a barber. When the war began, he enlisted in the National Guard as a private and was sent to Europe with the 42nd "Rainbow" Division. During lulls in battle, he would give his fellow soldiers haircuts and scribble in his diary. On July 28, 1918, during the fighting near Chateau-Thierry, his commanding officer called for a courier to carry...
...question still to be answered is whether the new President has the will to back up his words. His friends are more worried than his foes about a seeming irresoluteness on occasion, a remoteness from the events over which he should be exercising command. James David Barber, professor of political science at Duke University, feels that Reagan is a "sentimentalist whose presidential style is overwhelmingly rhetorical. He invests very little in the homework of office or tough negotiations. I think we're all going to see more Ben-Gay than blood...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM'S Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street shocks like an amusement park's house of horrors, slitting the emotions and jangling open nerves, but the chill melts quickly and the musical ultimately fails. For his first stab at opera, Sondheim appropriated the hackneyed Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd, a barber who exacts revenge for his wife's death by slashing the throats of her murderers. Sweeney's neighbor, a Mrs. Lovett, capitalizes on their punishment by grinding the corpses into filling for her famous meat pies. It's all rather messy...
Acting as if he did not have a care in the world, Ronald Reagan might have been just another wealthy, leisured Californian doing his routine chores last week. He visited his tailor, barber and butcher, where he picked up two shopping bags of veal and beef from his private meat locker in the town of Thousand Oaks. To some 50 people who turned out to greet him, he remarked: "You mean to tell me a farmer doing his work is of this much interest...
DIED. John Fischetti, 64, Pulitzer-prizewinning political cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times whose acerbic drawings championed the downtrodden citizen while satirizing the mighty; of heart disease; in Chicago. The son of a barber in Brooklyn's Little Italy, Fischetti derived the title of his 1973 autobiography, Zinga, Zinga, Zal, from a cousin, who used the phrase to answer virtually all questions. "For me," wrote Fischetti, "the point of a political cartoonist is to take some of the zing out of the zinga, zinga...