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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kaplan operates a Long Island vampire-research center and, according to Weeks, has "spent a lifetime studying things that go bump in the night." Then there is Bill Steed of Emeryville, Calif., who dresses like a Wild West dandy, calls himself a professor of frog psychology and, at his Croaker College, trains jumping frogs. The school's graduates have been presented to Dolly Parton and Ronald Reagan, who, despite his interest in astrology and passion for jelly beans, is not an eccentric, says Weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Rise of The American Oddball | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

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