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There was a great 60s junk novel called The Harvard Experiment that was about a college in Cambridge, Mass. (Har-Rad, get it?) where they put all freshman in rooms with members of the opposite sex, just so the could be fully educated. The point is that if you were going to hint plausibly that any American college is a sex haven, you'd hint that it's Harvard. The old tabloid Hearst newspaper in Boston liked that Harvard the best: "HARVARD BARES WILD PARTIES" was its banner headline...
Phoebe's Charlie was not the legendary saxophonist but a pal nicknamed Harpo. "He had all Harpo Marx's moves down," says Phoebe, "and he played junk instruments like the washtub bass." Charlie introduced her to new music like Spike Jones. Then three years ago, at the age of 20, he died of an overdose...
Sugarleaf. Country Music Festival today and tomorrow in Kingfield, Maine, which is quite for north. Featuring Johnny Rodriguez (commercial junk), dick Cureless (the Dean of New England country music, specializing in trucking songs, with a voice so dead that it makes the back up voice in "Duke of Ear" sound like Tiny Tim). Waylon Janinge (the greatest of the Austin-based outlaw country singers), and Scruggs his own self. Tickets at Ticketron...
...According to a recently completed year-long study commissioned by the California state assembly, an average of 300,000 Californians are injured every year by stepping on broken glass, sharp-edged pull-tabs and other varieties of jettisoned junk. Medical treatment for the injuries costs about $3 million annually. The next step for the lawmakers is to act on a pending bill to clean up the state-and reduce the risks...
...this particular afternoon it was hot and wet out. perhaps 95 degrees. and the fourists, wearing garish T.shirts emblazoned with racy messages that they had bought in the junk shops that lined the streets, were streaming by, red and sweating. There was a mediocre jazz band playing down on the corner, loud. The band, which plays all day long on the cornrt below my friend's apartment, is run by the cotoner of New Orieans, a man named Dr.Frank Minyard who decided one day that being coroner was boring and so called some of his friends, put on a Hawaiian...