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Well, times change, and the underground papers have changed with them, or have gone under; the survivors have reached the suburbanites who worry about which lawn sprinkler system to buy. The Real Paper is probably the biggest American publishing success in the last decade--from a staff that once went six months without pay to a twenty-story high rise on Mass. Ave. in five years. But to do that, something had to go. The record ads and the stereo ads are still there, but the cover story of The Real Paper this week is a long feature about...
...energy program, he was suddenly under fire for putting on the 8-oz. gloves-and seemed to relish it. Thursday night, only hours after he took on the oil and gas industry, the President was in a buoyant mood as he played host on the White House South Lawn to 500 Georgians of the "Peanut Brigade," the group that carried the Carter campaign door to door in its early days. Old Friend Bert Lance was there, and the former Budget Director spent the night in the Lincoln bedroom. When one member of the Brigade told Carter that "on the next...
...excerpts. Christopher Sykes' authorized biography appeared soon after. It made ample use of the diaries that Waugh began in 1911 at age seven and continued, on and off, until a year before he died in 1966. The originals now lie preserved and climate controlled in a literary Forest Lawn at the University of Texas-not a small irony for the man who wreaked hilarity on the American way of death in The Loved...
...work in the flower gardens around his comfortable three-bedroom home in Grosse Pointe Park, read books and play with his daughter's six-year-old son. He keeps in shape with twice-weekly games of golf and tennis. He finds himself "taking better care of the lawn, the house, the cars." He and his wife Helen, 63, make occasional treks to Colorado and Florida, but he does not share all his activities with her. Says he: "We have made an effort to have separate interests so we're not together 24 hours...
...Graceland before the funeral, described a conversation with Charlie Hodge, Presley's guitarist; he tearfully told how he had "been with Elvis all day. Just this afternoon I shaved his sideburns. It was the least I could do." Even today, souvenir hunters pull blades of grass from the lawn around the mausoleum housing the coffins of Elvis and his mother, who died in 1958. One night police arrested three men for trespassing on cemetery grounds. Alarmed, Presley's lawyers and his father Vernon are seeking city permission to move the remains of Elvis and his mother for reburial...