Word: gahan
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Humor, James Thurber observed, "is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." That at least seems to be the governing philosophy behind many of the cartoons in this year's collections. The best in this vein is Gahan Wilson's gently crafted Nuts (Marek; unpaginated; $4.95), chronicles of growing up. "You who remember how great it was to be a little kid, gang, don't remember how it was to be a little kid," warns Wilson, whose intrepid, chunky comic -strip hero survives a series of boyhood crises. Pilgrim's Regress, edited by Joel Wells (Thomas More Press...
Sick humor. That's what Paco loved, and he couldn't get enough of it. Gahan Wilson cartoons, Gary Gilmore jokes, National Lampoon raised to the nth degree--Paco took it all in and somehow managed to keep from gagging. His favorite, though, was a cartoon from Playboy or Penthouse or some other urbane excuse for a glossy fold-out with a staple in her navel. Wherever it was from, Paco didn't remember, he simply knew some friend had given it to him one night at a fund-raiser for the United Farm Workers which he attended because after...
That afternoon, Judge Anthony Julian of the Federal District Court for eastern Massachusetts ruled that jurisdiction in the case involving the right of waitresses at Cronin's Restaurant to picket lies exclusively in federal court. Julian also ruled that a written stipulation by James C. Gahan, Jr., '34, Cronin's attorney, permitting peaceful picketing would sufficiently "cover" the earlier restraining order by clarifying the right of the HSWOC members to resume picketing...
...conclusion of his summation argument, prior to the decision, Gahan said: "Mr. Cronin is this year's target for certain groups in and around Harvard Square... This (the trial and the strike) has been a real nightmare for Mr. and Mrs. Cronin." Cronin himself had testified that the strike had cut his business by at least 65 per cent and was costing him about $11,000 a month...
...Gahan is also attempting to prove that Cronin's firing of all eight striking waitresses had nothing to do with the strike. If the firing did result from the strike, as the waitresses contend, the firing is illegal. Gahan refused to comment after court yesterday on Cronin's reasons for firing the waitresses...