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They succeeded all too well. During the week-long oddball Olympics, contestants in 75 events set eleven new world records. John Parker, 24, made himself a 1975 edition Guinness notable by downing 300 goldfish, 75 more than the previous oldie goldie. Rick Sumner, 14, polished off 20 doughnuts in 9 min. 59 sec., beating the old record of 20 in 15 min. John McKinney, 17, and Rick Sackett, 25, each crammed 52 cigars into their mouths and kept them alight for 30 sec. (v. the previous record of 28 lit for 30 sec.). Another titlist, Scott Case, managed to smoke...
...discovery of this massive array of facts makes Blotner's failure to approach the mind of the writer all the more inexcusable. He could have, as Edel suggests, used psychology, like Freud's Leonardo da Vinci, Erikson's Young Man Luther, and David Donald's Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War. Henry James was suited to Edel's psychological approach--in fact demanded such treatment--because, as the editor of the James letters said, "his life was no mere succession of facts such as could be recorded and compiled by another hand; it was a densely knit...
...less than half as fast as it was last summer, and the savings rate has inched up from about 6% to more than 7% as people start banking more of their paycheck instead of spending it. "The energy shortage should lessen the popularity of shopping as a sport," laments Sumner Feldberg, chairman of Massachusetts-based Zayre discount stores. "We're in for a period of tough retailing." Says Dick Balch, a suburban Seattle Chevrolet-Fiat dealer: "It looks to me as if the economy has just plain stopped...
Officers at the Reserve Command said yesterday that Gen. Sumner Z. Kaplan had agreed to the Lampoon request for the escort strictly for publicity reasons. Kaplan could not be reached for comment...
...Sumner, firebrand senator from Massachusetts who took to the U.S. Senate floor to launch a direct onslaught on slave-holders, was judged unfit to be professor at the Harvard Law School. He recognized the reason and described it clearly in a letter to his brother: "I am too much...reformer...to be trusted...