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Misspent Youth. To their amusement, only Pennsylvania could recall the famous 1946 Ajax song ("Use Ajax, bumm, bumm, the foaming cleanser . . . "). To the question, "What flavor ice cream did Harpo Marx sell in A Day at the Races", the judges ruled out Princeton's "tutti-frutti" for Yale's more colorful and accurate "tootsi-frootsi...
...Supreme Court's famous Miranda decision last June wrought vast changes in police procedure with its ruling that every defendant must be told of his post-arrest rights to remain silent and to have a lawyer present at his interrogation. But what of the principal defendant whose conviction the Court overturned...
Miranda's name became the shorthand title of last year's decision because his case chanced to be first on a list of four that the Supreme Court considered together. But the other three defendants seem to be little better off than their more famous compatriot. One, Roy Allen Stewart, will be retried in Los Angeles on murder-robbery charges later this month. In New York City, Stick-up-Man Michael Vignera has already pleaded guilty to a lesser robbery charge, and is now doing 7½ to 10 years in Sing Sing; the first time his sentence...
...collaboration of two poet-professors, Anthony Hecht of Bard College and John Hollander of Hunter. According to the rules set forth in Jiggery-Pokery (112 pages; Atheneum; $3.95), all the poems must begin with a double-dactyl nonsense line such as "higgledy-piggledy" or "jiggery-pokery." Thereafter comes a famous name-also double dac tylic-followed by another double dactyl and a line of four beats. Then it begins all over again, ending, like all jokes, with a punch line. To make things more sporting, somewhere along the way is a double-dactylic line of one word. Example...
Harvard alumni are notorious non-writers (even the McNamara incident drew only 25 letters). A famous cartoon in the Bulletin's fiftieth anniversary issue shows seven superimposed editors, each sitting beneath the portrait of his predecessor, and each reading a letter that begins "It strikes me that this year's football ticket situation is the worst in Harvard history." The implication that the old alums who do put pen to paper are sure to be uninspired and predictably stuffy isn't true, according to Bethell...