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...with meanness. He unscrewed the bulb from a nearby lamp and ate it. The kooky stunt so pleased him and his audience that Bennett, 21, has since consumed a dozen bulbs. He has also set off-the campus' most bizarre craze since Lothrop Withington Jr. swallowed a live goldfish at the Freshman Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Glass Eaters | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...Usually chomping on a half-smoked cigar that sprinkles ashes down his rumpled blue polo shirt, Dixon talks in convoluted jargon that has earned him the nickname "Dim Jixon." Students still talk about his speech in 1969 comparing the campus to a well-balanced fishbowl populated with guppies, goldfish and piranhas. "For days," says one senior, "people tried to figure out what he meant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tempest in the Fishbowl | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

...this spring, heavy rains have sent the Mississippi spilling across 10.4 million acres, leaving 30 people dead, 30,000 homeless and damages estimated at $193 million. In a Midwestern repetition of last spring's disastrous East Coast floods, boats, rafts and Army trucks evacuated parents, children, even goldfish and family refrigerators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Second Deluge | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

Thirty-four years to the day after Lothrop Withington, Jr. '42 downed a live goldfish before onlookers in the Freshman Union, a sophomore sat in Lowell House munching away calmly on a lightbulb "for dessert...

Author: By Mark C. Frazier, | Title: Lightbulb Eaters Spread Hobby Here | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...twelve he made his acting debut in a play about fairies called The Goldfish. At 17 he had graduated from playing the "juve" and was delivering his lines with that crisp, ironic, haughty precision that an entire generation of actors subsequently learned not to imitate lest they sound like feebly envious parodists. By 20 his first frothy comedy, I'll Leave It to You, was on the boards, and at 25 he had his first smash hit on both sides of the Atlantic, The Vortex. In this play, he portrayed a neurasthenic drug-addicted son with a Hamlet-like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Master Entertainer | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

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