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...Those were wonderful days," says Springsteen's buddy, Southside Johnny Lyon. "We were all young and crazy." Bustling with music and the fever of young musicians, bands swapping songs and members, new jobs and old girls, Asbury Park sounds, if only in memory, like Liverpool before it brought forth the Beatles. Springsteen lived in a surfboard factory run by a displaced Californian named Carl Vergil ("Tinker") West III, who became, for a time, his manager...
...really is a good thing, then, that the World Series is finally over, because nobody who has a nose can be a winner in an atmosphere so polluted by Sox fever. It's as if the government demanded that every person living within a 60-mile radius of Boston spend an hour each day in a room with a skunk...
From time immemorial we have recognized yellow fever, malaria, syphilis, leprosy, perversion, degeneracy, garbage and homosexuality in about that order...
...Louis encephalitis seems to have bypassed the young and hit hardest at the elderly. In Mississippi, for example, the median age for SLE victims is 70, and there have been relatively few cases in people under 40. SLE's younger victims usually suffer nothing worse than a moderate fever, stiff neck, severe headaches and some lassitude. The aged are more likely to run high fevers, have convulsions and, especially if already debilitated...
...situation is reversed for those who contract another form of the disease called Western Equine Encephalitis (WEE)−a variation that is largely confined to horses but can also hit humans. Adults usually recover from a WEE infection, but in infants and children, it can produce high fever, convulsions and coma; those under one year of age who survive an infection are likely to have permanent brain damage. So far this year WEE has struck hundreds of horses and killed six of its 9 human victims in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota...