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Giggles on the Associated Press service are about as scarce as deadpan reporting in the National Lampoon. The venerable news agency will try to change that beginning this week by syndicating "The Phoenix Nest," which ran for 14 years in Saturday Review before Norman Cousins left the magazine. Martin Levin, who edits the column, thinks that the heartland is ready for some topical humor because "the little old lady from Dubuque is now in touch with Germaine Greer-if only with a ten-foot pole." In the first column, Lawyer Peter Friedman tells how his circle benefits from the presence...
...things on his weekend which are good for more than just killing time. Sleuth is wrapping up its Boston run this week, a last chance to see the theatrical original. Only whodunit literati begrudge Anthony Shaffer his many tricks, other find it delightful. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest drew many critics' sneers when it opened off-Broadway. While the dramatization might not so nearly approach the greatness of Ken Kesey's novel, it's powerful enough on its own. Godspell keeps youthquaking along with spirit and a few tunes, if little else...
CHARLES PLAYHOUSE. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. At 7:30, mats...
CHARLES PLAYHOUSE. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest at 7:30, mats...
...Four Seasons Nursing Centers of America Inc. By owning part of a fast-growing proprietor of homes for the ailing aged, they could profit from a healthy young industry -or so the tout went. For a while, anyone who bought that advice had the prospect of a very comfortable nest egg indeed. Offered at $11 a share in 1968, Four Seasons soared to $181 (counting for a split). Then, a spectacular fizzle. The price shriveled to as low as 6¼? before the company was finally suspended from trading on the American Stock Exchange in September 1970. Last week...