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...HORN (243 pp.)-John Clellon Holmes-Random House...
...name was Edgar Pool, and he was out of KayCee (Kansas City, that is). Of course, no one but a square called him Edgar or Pool or even Eddie. He was simply "The Horn," and, man, he could really blow. His deeds on the sax and his misdeeds on and off the bandstand made him a legend in his lifetime. The Horn was so hip that he just did not care. He had had all the booze, all the drugs, all the women. And he could blow his horn so marvelously that, through him, jazz achieved a new dimension...
...Veterans Administration. The Dorn-VA technique: whenever a claim was filed to collect insurance, investigators double-checked both the primary cause of death and other contributory diseases with the physician who signed the death certificate, and (if possible) with the results of post-mortem examinations. Where the Hammond-Horn study had been attacked by the tobacco industry as statistically unsound because of the investigators' bias, the Dorn-VA investigation could not be assailed on the same ground, although even before formal publication it was criticized by industry spokesmen ("It cannot possibly establish the cause or causes of any diseases...
Tirra-Lire-Lire. In Acqui, Italy, 1½-year-old Maurizio Pesce was fined 400 lire for excessive tootling of his father's auto horn...
...Sandman. In Ashiya, Japan, a ten-day crackdown on horn blowing was so successful that the only traffic accident during the period involved a driver who fell asleep at the wheel...