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Tom Blanton

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Sorrow is Such Sweet Parting

T WO WEEKS before Christmas, a middle-aged man woke up in a bathtub when his heart shivered. The water had


Tower of Babel

S OMEHOW a rocking chair seems out of place in the repertoire of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning Vietnam correspondent and monomaniacal reporter


And the American Dream Did the Rest

I F STEVE BRILL were the type who sings in the shower, he would never have written a book which


Answers to the Ballot Questions

Question 1 There's no question about it: Property taxes are going up. Massachusetts already has the highest property taxes of


Yore Cheatin' Heart

T HERE was great joy in Mudville when Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp announced in August 1976 that Volkswagen would locate


A Chocolate Mess

"N-E-S-T-L-E-S, Nestles makes the very best, Mal-nutrition." That mutant jingle from the old commercials made the campus rounds this week,


Hey, Good Lookin', Whatcha Got Cookin'?

T HIS IS THE YEAR Ronald Ray-gun's Citizens for the Republic is the number one political fundraiser. This is the


Meanwhile, at the Med School...

Last spring Dr. Oglesby Paul '38 was a lonely man. As the Harvard Medical School's new director of admissions, Paul


Book Review

S OME TIME DURING the night of September 13, 1974, an unseen group of bucket-bearing revolutionaries plastered every flat surface