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...five days Sidney has been frozen out of J.J.'s column because he's been unable to deliver on a promise to break up a romance between J.J.'s adored young sister Susie and Steve Dallas, a promising young singer. Desperate to return to J.J.'s good graces, he has the inspiration to plant a smear of Dallas, as a dope-smoking Red, in a rival column. That little trick doesn't drive the lovers apart so, on J.J.'s orders, Sidney plants reefers on Dallas and has him arrested and assaulted by a corrupt cop named Harry Kello. Later...
...scene from the book is played almost verbatim in the film. Sidney reads an advance copy of J.J.'s column, sees that he has praised Herbie Temple, an old vaudeville comic, and learns that J.J. ran the bit without a press agent's urging - simply because he thought the fella was funny. Sidney rushes over to tell the comic he can get him a mention in J.J.'s column, then makes a phony phone call, pretending to dictate to J.J. the exact item that will appear later in the day. The novelette has a twist not in the film...
...disappointed with the recent column by Meredith B. Osborn ’02 (“Arguing Abortion, Responsibly,” March 15), particularly the parts concerning the “Abortion: The Legal and Political Landscape” policy group I am leading at the IOP. Osborn points out that one of the initial outreach e-mails I sent mentioned “tentative plans...to invite two speakers, a convicted abortion clinic bomber and someone as far to the Left on the issue as possible.” However, I made it very clear to her, after...
...Osborn taken the time to attend the group, she would have found that the first two weeks were spent discussing precisely the need to minimize emotionally charged language in order to provide a safe space to “discuss abortion responsibly.” It is her column that defies this openness in its blatantly political slant...
Jordana R. Lewis ’02 is a history and literature concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Thursdays...