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John Pym played the goodhearted dimwit Irwin Ingham. He too, though he's the only first-rate comedian at Harvard, did more than grub for laughs. At first you noticed the variety of expressions he used to convey dimwittedness. And how perfectly his baggy pants suited his clumsy movements. But Pym is indefatigable. At the end, when he confessed the skepticism he'd felt all along about Party success, benevolence toward his Leader radiated from his muddled face. His companion, Prentiss Claflin, wasn't as whole a man. Still, considering that he was on book for an ailing member...
...Souvenir Detectors" [March 24] brought back nostalgic memories of the times when, as kids in a less sophisticated era, we went on these treasure hunts in Atlanta. Our method was to walk to the woods and grub around on our hands and knees for hours, our eyes on the ground. Pushing aside the matted undergrowth and rotting vegetation, we came upon many finds. My brother had quite a creditable collection of Minie balls, spent shells, uniform buttons, and other bits and pieces of unidentifiable metal left behind by Yankee soldiers during the Battle of Atlanta. However, the prize...
What's horrifying about All in the Family is the implication that the grub-chasers themselves, those bright young men, those Ivy League Irish, turn into grubs themselves upon entering the State House or the City Hall...
...bone. The process sometimes required four years to complete, and during all that time the foot suppurated and the girl lived in punishing pain. Sometimes a child died of gangrene or blood poisoning. At last, the foot was reduced to what foot fanciers called a "golden lotus"-a pale grub of flesh about four inches long, less than an inch wide, and arched "like a lady's eyebrow...
...Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club, where steelmen gather for grub and gossip, few names have stoked tempers faster than that of Norton Simon. The California industrialist, who uses his Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc. as a corporate base for buying into other companies