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...beepers' appeal must be partly credited to the status they bestow on the wearer. Salesmen visiting clients sometimes set theirs off manually, then announce they must leave to close a $10,000 deal. Says Chicago-based Airline Stewardess Sonja Lied: "When it goes off in a restaurant, people think I must be somebody very important." Still, the little boxes do have a knack for going off at the wrong moments: in church, at the symphony, in bed. Husbands, wives and lovers have been known to banish the gadgets from the bedroom. Could those little blurps and beeps...
Call Lily Tomlin the Crown Princess or whatever nice title you might want to bestow upon her, but "Long live the Queen!"-Lucille Ball...
Freshmen are presumably aware of the alterations and improvements the revised package will bestow upon the Quad. But this year the housing office will have to assign from 40 to 60 more unwilling sophomores to the Quad than last year. The other empty spaces opened up as Quad freshmen move out will be partly filled by transfer students; in fact a plan to house all transfer students at the Quad is now under consideration...
...Simpson is required to run around in a priest's collar and talk in an imbecilic simper. Doubtless the hero sympathizes with Lee Strasberg, who appears to be so affronted by his dialogue that he whispers all of it in virtually inaudible silence, and wishes to bestow on the other players the gift of still deeper silence...
...hear it for Memphis Bishop Carroll T. Dozier [Dec. 20]. In one fell swoop, he raised divorced Catholics' morale sky high while simultaneously exposing some shadowy church law to the critical judgment of daylight. Dozier's decision to bestow general forgiveness of sins on some 12,000 Christians is big news today. In Christ's time it would have been a no-hum event. For Pete's sake, Christ came on earth to forgive...