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HABEAS CORPUS. The middle-aged hero of this achingly funny farce studies lechery like a college course, but he gets nary an A for carnal knowledge. In key roles, Donald Sinden and Rachel Roberts convey randy frustration and purvey music hall bawdry...
More broadly, Griffith says that the function of the newsman should not be to purvey final answers and finished philosophy: "He is neither defender of any faith nor prophet of new orders, nothing so grand as that. His role in society is more like a dredging engineer, whose job it is to keep channels free and clear." He will not always succeed because "imperfection is the journalist's working climate." And newsmen are mistaken if they expect universal applause even when they do the dredging well. There are always those who like the silt...
...such assistance. Some garages offer expert advice and collections of fix-it literature. They also attract car buffs who are willing to share their knowledge with beginners. Baltex is even organizing a five-session course for customers-tuition: $25. At the Van Nuys, Calif., Auto Hobby Center, Actor Bob Purvey recently rebuilt the engine of his 1959 Jaguar. That intricate operation would have cost $2,600 if done commercially; Purvey spent only $1,000. "I hope I never have to do it again," he says, "but now I know just how it works. No garage is ever going...
...much have the proprietary view of "people out there" as possible patrons of my services--that one not very oppressed must be a full-time doer of good. What little I know I am happy to share, but I no longer have earth-shaking ministrations to purvey. You wanna know about rutabagas, I'll tell you about rutabagas. You wanna know about how to make a correct revolution...
Herrnstein said yesterday that he was not trying to be hostile to Purvey and that he had simply found a mistake in Purina's Crimson statement which he wanted him to correct...