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...along, a dervish of prepubescent ecstasy. (The show gave you a music education too.) In the mid-'60s, he had a hit of his own: a dance record, Soupy Sales Sez Do the Mouse, whose song "The Mouse" ranks in the novelty-song category up or down there with John Zacherle's "Dinner with Drac" and Steve Martin's "King Tut." That got him a contract as a Motown recording artist. Didn't last long. (See TIME's 1965 article "The Simple Simon Pieman...
These letters form part of the Houghton Library’s Oct. 7, 2009 acquisition of the John Updike archive, which comprises approximately 1,500 books and a host of his manuscripts...
Some advice for aspiring writers: if you anticipate your work being purchased en masse one day by the Houghton Library, have a mother who loves you. Or at least a mother like John Updike’s ’54, who compiles and binds your letters to be stored until the end of days...
...What pin would you wear to sum up the political climate now? I have three pins that I like to wear. One is a pin that was just given to me by the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General John Shalikashvili. It's a pin called America, and it has an eagle in the middle and four little pearls around it, [symbolizing] justice, equality, prosperity and security. I have a dove pin because I think that's very important. And then I'm sometimes asked what I would wear if I were to meet Iran's President...
...John Lavine, dean of the Medill School of Journalism, says the students should be considered reporters and therefore be protected by a 1982 Illinois shield law that protects reporters from having to divulge information to officials, absent a compelling public interest. He says the school will vehemently contest the prosecutor's request in court and will only turn over on-the-record documents and statements - not background information or any private grades or grading criteria. "It's simply beyond belief that [prosecutors] who are committed to courts being open and understood by the public would want to stop anyone from...