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...much for the critics who say Carlin's comedy is kid stuff. Despite living in the luminous shadow of Lenny Bruce, pioneer of modern irony and consciousness, Carlin has steadily dug out his niche as a performing artist...
...heyday. Already this year we have seen films about the rise of '50s Deejay Alan Freed (American Hot Wax), the advent of the Beatles (/ Wanna Hold Your Hand) and the swan song of The Band (The Last Waltz). Now comes The Buddy Holly Story, a biopic about the pioneer rocker who died in a plane crash at age 22 in 1959. In many ways this film resembles the rest of the crop: it is rousing, if imperfect entertainment that treats its hero as a full-fledged saint. But in box office terms, The Buddy
This 102-year-old embarrassment to Custer's reputation was discovered by Jim Masters, an employee of the Wisconsin Telephone Co.'s legal department, while researching the early formation of the company in its pioneer museum. Was there a follow-up letter? Says Masters: "Two months later there was no reason for further correspondence...
Norman Shumway, Stanford heart-transplant pioneer, and his colleague, Immunologist Rose Payne, who kept the new hearts from being rejected...
...editor was Murray J. Gart, 53, who since 1969 has headed the TIME-LIFE News Service with the rank of assistant managing editor of TIME. The paper's new publisher is George W. Hoyt, 42, former president of a thriving Time Inc. weekly newspaper chain, the Chicago-area Pioneer Press...