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...Phoney tunes," as they are called, seem to have originated in the Detroit area about five months ago when Kenneth Ascher, 20, a pre-med student at Eastern Michigan University, called WXYZ Disc Jockey Dick Purtan and said: "Listen to this." Since then, Purtan says, "people have been going crazy, calling up to play Old Folks at Home, Happy Birthday and everything else." One Detroit lawyer is being driven to distraction, Purtan says, because his phone number corresponds to the hallowed "shave and a haircut, two bits" refrain...
...after graduating from Harvard in 1960, Chris took a job on the Arkansas Gazette, where he stayed as a reporter and editor for most of the '60s. While still on the newspaper, he finished pre-med requirements and began medical school at the University of Arkansas. Mononucleosis forced him to drop out, however, and while he was recuperating, he finished his first novel, Mouth Full of Sugar...
...done a better job here. The pacing is snappy: the opening describes documentary-style how a certain bed comes to be empty--the result of a death by misdiagnosis. The following morning a nurse discovers yet another dead body in this bed; it is the corpse of a philandering med student who has used it for a clandestine rendezvous. Next comes a series of further strange deaths among the medical staff. The hospital is in a flurry, the demonstrators are chanting outside, the slimy capitalist is trying to cull support for his encounter with the hospital director, the director...
...feeling that the people who put it together had a rather passive contempt for the project, holding it at a redeeming arm's length while they went through the necessary gestures. Originally a straight-out attempt at pure exploitation, Dealing's script was concocted by Michael Crichton '64 (a Med School graduate who has recently taken up practice in Hollywood) in consultation with his brother Douglas. Even before filming began, the script was turned into a book (a la Love Story and Summer of '42) which was issued last year. Yet, rather than drumming up interest in the then uncompleted...
Questioned on the rarity of the philosophical athlete, Woods exploded, "These guys are not just recruited. Sharp people make up the team and that makes it interesting. Guys like playing soccer, at the same time they do have other interests. Felix (Adedeji), a high scorer, is also pre-med...