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...Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson copy them. The testimonial dinners? "Commonplace, openly conducted, but in view of the abuse I've received, I wish I'd never heard of one." The free use of a car? "Now what's wrong with that? Other people had lent me cars. I never did anything for any of them that I wouldn't do for anyone else...
...leading politicians, soldiers, scholars, businessmen and civil servants. He arranged a delegation of 2,000 uniformed schoolchildren, a parade of uniformed soldiers and, as the ultimate tribute to his new father-in-law, a massive replay of Haiti's carnival celebrations, which usually end with the beginning of Lent...
...serve as "a semi-legal authority." And one senior remembers when his wallet was stolen on a Saturday night his Freshman year. The policeman on duty asked him if he had a date, and when the student replied that he did and had no money, the officer lent him ten dollars and told him "to bring it back sometime...
Betwixt and between, he dashed off four comic essays for The New Yorker, appeared on numerous TV shows at $10,000 a shot, played Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas for $25,000 a week, turned out two bestselling comedy albums, and lent his owlish visage to several advertisements ranging from Smirnoff's vodka to Foster Grant sunglasses. Now he is completing a new nightclub act as well as a play about "a happily neurotic love affair." This summer he plans to begin work on Take the Money and Run, a new film he co-authored and will...
...other studies is that of dissatisfaction and depression. A study at Oxford by by Davidson and Hutt found that psychiatric patients had a significantly higher score than controls on the Depression Scale of the MMPI. Like the Harvard Study, that from Yale found dissatisfaction to be much more lent among the psychiatric patient. We might not be surprised to find some depression early in college because of the mourning involved in the break from home. Also we might expect some depression due to loss in self-esteem when students meet stiff competition at college. Yet these depressions should be transient...