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Hersh takes an almost jaunty view of his forays: "Being an investigative reporter is like being a freak. You're trying to get information other people don't want you to have. I don't make deals, I don't party and drink with sources, and I don't play a game of leaks. I read, I listen, I squirrel information. It's fun." One government official describes his technique as one of sheer persistence: "He wheedles, cajoles, pleads, threatens, asks a leading question, uses little tidbits as if he knew the whole story...
...Cocaine, which could be obtained legally, was widely used at the time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, who injects a "seven-per-cent solution" at the opening of The Sign of the Four, was supposedly a cocaine freak. A new book appropriately titled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution even has Holmes lured to Vienna, where Freud helps him kick the habit...
Buzz Bennett, known on the air as Captain Boogie, is a 32-year-old bushy-haired former disc jockey who dresses like an Old Western street freak, talks like a Madison Avenue adman and currently has a six-figure income. Bennett is a radio doctor-one of the top half a dozen itinerant programming consultants who specialize in transforming dull and unprofitable pop-music stations into listener-loaded moneymakers...
...book about a mugger. The subject brings various expectations. A certain horror-fascination at getting in on the other side of urban America's living fear; the noncerebral prospect of a bloody how-to guide; perhaps a fast freak-show visit into the mind of an animal. The one thing a reader does not ex, pect is a troubling, memorable encounter with a human being. Yet that is precisely what James Willwerth produces. To enter this mugger's world means that inexorably, as one of the mugger's friends put it, "you don't think about laws...
...Crimson's Ivy hopes were dealt a blow when 142-pounder George Baker decided to leave college. To compensate for the void, Lee moved senior captain Carl Biello up from 134 pounds to the 142 slot. There must be a jinx at this position, as BIello suffered a freak injury and will be out for two weeks. Ty Richardson '76, normally a 134-pounder, will hold the 142 slot while Biello recovers...