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...McLean Hospital and Harvard officials announce that Dr. Shervert H. Frazier, the hospital's former director, has been reinstated at the hospital as a staff psychiatrist and "psychiatrist in chief, emeritus." He does not regain his previous post...
When Dr. Shervert H. Frazier, who also served as director of the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital, resigned his post last fall after admitting that he had plagiarized 15 to 20 years ago, some professors said he had been judged too harshly...
...University of Rochester graduate student uncovered articles by a professor from which Frazier had copied "substantial portions," according to the findings of the University's Faculty Conduct Committee...
...Yorker humorist Ian Frazier is the latest to light out, looking for locals with twangy accents, and it's still a fine, fresh idea. There is plenty of West to go around, it turns out. Frazier pokes about in the Plains states, to the east of the Rockies, letting his own mild adventures and rummagings in small-town museums drift into recollections of the old days. "Indians thought the white men's custom of shaking hands was comical," he reports, enchanted by this odd information. "Sometimes two Indians would approach each other, shake hands, and then fall on the ground...
...Frazier tells us that tumbleweed came from Russia, that Nicodemus, Kans. (pop. 50), was founded by black settlers in 1877, that during the dust-bowl years of the mid-'30s storms called "dusters" were identified by color -- brown from Kansas, red from Oklahoma, dirty yellow from Texas and New Mexico. He relates that in 1910 C.W. Post, the cereal magnate, tried to produce rain at Post City, Texas, by blowing up boxcarloads of dynamite. He had enough success, or at least enough coincidental rain, to be encouraged. Frazier is fascinated by the nobility of Crazy Horse, the great Oglala Sioux...