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...most urgent problem is money; the fan mail has brought in only $3,000 for his defense fund. He has only received about $15,000 of his share of a $100,000 advance from Viking Press for Lieutenant Calley, an expansion of his Esquire "confessions" to Writer John Sack that is to be published in September. But the expenses of his defense have been substantial, and at the moment he is trying to find $700 to pay the Army for quarters occupied by his lawyers during the court-martial...
...court that convicted Lieut. William Galley last week also made an unprecedented demand for some 60 hours of taped conversation between Galley and Writer John Sack, whose as-told-to stories are appearing in Esquire under the title "The Confessions of Lieutenant Galley." It was the first time a military tribunal had asserted the authority claimed by civilian courts, and in doing so Trial Judge Colonel Reid Kennedy said he did not consider Sack's stories the work of a journalist but a ghostwriter. "We're not talking about news but about a confession...
Since the signs went up, sales of well-known high-phosphate detergents have dropped 17% in Alexanders stores while total sales of relatively unknown low-phosphate brands have climbed 446%. At Alexanders, even the familiar brown paper grocery sacks carry a message urging shoppers to "make ecology your bag" by writing Congressmen about pollution -right on the outside of the sack...
...mean? Beefheart is a much-maligned genius: an advertisement he filmed for his new album Lick My Decals Off, Baby, was refused TV airtime because it was "obscene." (It consisted of a cigarette flipping through the air in slow motion, Rockette Morton walking across the screen with a sack over his head working a hand eggbeater, Beefheart kicking over a can of white paint in slow motion, and a shot of the record cover.) The refusal was less moral, entertaining, and enlightening than any toothpaste, shaving cream, laundry detergent, hair spray or feminine deodorant spray advertisement, another distinctive feather...
...ordinary pig." The local minister explains the miracle in his next sermon. "The words on the spider web proved that human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders." Wilbur becomes a sensation, and a prize pig. Before she dies, Charlotte leaves Wilbur a sack of spider eggs that hatch and provide for Wilbur a new generation of friends for each new spring; protection against loneliness, and proof against time...