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Entertainer James Karol performed magic and comedy for mouth-filled audiences at the Freshman Union and Quincy and Eliot House dining halls. An ex-Pennsylvanian police officer, Karol was paid by the Undergraduate Council to kick off its spring social calendar...
...thought it would be nice for him to go around the dining halls and make dinner kind of fun," said Council Chair Kenneth E. Lee '89 yesterday. Karol, who dropped his regular $750 fee to $250 and a Harvard sweatshirt, "really wanted to perform at Harvard because of the name," said...
Mixing jokes with the stand-by "pick-a-card-any-card" trick and the old "remove the bra from the unsuspecting freshman," Karol spent two hours giving five-minute performances between tables. The Allentown, Penn., native promised but never delivered the "stick-your-finger-in-the-broom-handle-breaker" routine...
...thing is to expose the big fakes out there," Karol said. He described himself as "Sam Kinison with the knowledge of the Amazing Kreskin...
Even so, Gorbachev again and again surmounted the mixed popular feelings with his friendly spontaneity and sheer star quality. He reminded many Poles of another crowd-pleasing occasional visitor, Pope John Paul II, except that the former Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Cracow did not need to have his remarks translated into Polish. At many stops, copies of Gorbachev's book Restructuring and New Thinking were thrust into his face by fans seeking autographs. Gorbachev usually complied, though when a young fan at a wreath- laying ceremony in Warsaw passed his green neckerchief for a signature, the Soviet leader demurred...