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Yale hits its jackpot...
Once again, they've hit the jackpot: Their new creation, Animal House, will greatly amuse all but the easily offended. It is easily the funniest movie of the year. Much of it merits praise, even lavish praise. But it is interesting to note how much they've stuck to their original gags, how they've maintained the edge of offensiveness tempered by outrageousness and good humor. And insipidly enough, Animal House is also quite the Ivy League film. For Animal House is the ultimate Dartmouth movie--or, at least the ultimate rendering of the characteristically snotty Harvard image of Dartmouth...
...Murdoch, the Australian publisher of the Post--whose spectacular lack of taste is matched only by his spectacular success in selling newspapers--enjoyed an even bigger bonanza. While the Post's front-page fantasies about the killings attracted hundreds of thousands of readers throughout the summer, Murdoch hit the jackpot when he decorated his front page with a series of letters from the suspect to a former girlfriend--under the headline "How I Became a Mass Murderer, by David R. Berkowitz." Only in America, they say. But the money kept pouring...
...million-dollar misunderstanding may not be the only jolt for lottery winners. Many are soon besieged by relatives, charities and causes that want to share the presumed riches. One Air Force sergeant who won the Maryland lottery was asked to contribute to UFO research. Dominic Barisano, 63, won the jackpot in Massachusetts, only to give away so much to his four children, 13 grandchildren and eight brothers and sisters that he had no money to pay his income taxes. Says his wife Concetta, 61: "I'm a little sorry we won. One of my grandchildren told...
There are, of course, benefits to winning even a diluted million. Says James A. Easter, 32, of Chicago, who hit his jackpot in November 1974: "I've been meeting girls like crazy. I always thought women took time and money. Lately I've had both." Some winners quit their jobs, partly because their newly inflated tax bracket makes working literally less worth their while. Travel becomes affordable and a way to kill time. Gary and Janet Beaton of Boxford, Mass., visited warmer climes, such as Acapulco and Bermuda, then spent the summer cruising in their new boat...