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ISHMAEL SCOTT REED WAS BORN in Chattanooga, Tennessee on February 22, 1938, to Henry Lenoir, a fundraiser for the YMCA and Thelma Coleman, a homemaker and sales clerk. Later, his mother married Bennie Reed, an auto worker. In 1942, Reed moved with his mother to Buffalo, New York, where his mother worked in various wartime industries. As a teenager, he half-heartedly attended Buffalo public schools, he wrote a jazz column for a local newspaper in his spare time...
...began his college education at the University of Buffalo's night school, supporting himself as a clerk in the public library during the day. Reed had begun creative writing at the age of 14, and one of his short stories turned out to be his ticket out of night school and into the bachelor of arts curriculum at the University of Buffalo...
...more priceless moments of The Day Room have only tangential relevance to the action at hand. One of the benefits of having all one's characters lunatics is that virtually any parenthetical comment may be expanded into a foolishly profound discourse. Richard Grusin, playing a sleazy motel desk clerk, launches into an elegy on stains and their makers, while Thomas Derrah portrays a straightjacketed mental patient and Middle American T.V. set simultaneously with equal conviction and vigor...
...majority of Lawrence's City Council has supported the plan that will, if approved, facilitate Emerson's move to Lawrence. The nine-member council may take a binding vote on the plan as early as its next meeting, on Tuesday, said Jim McGravey, assistant city clerk...
...tone of most cover letters, the letters of the three entries state their wishes candidly. "If you have even an ounce of compassion in your taut, aerobically perfect body, you will condescend to grant me an interview on one of the 435 closed schedule positions for Assistant to Mail Clerk," began the letter of first prize winner Ladd K. Biro...