The Week

Cultural notes. Fort Worth: a group of uglies recently picketed an airline’s office offering jobs to “goodlooking” people. Detroit: Mr. Algene Choate has sued the school board for forcing his son “to eat a sandwich with an abnormally large amount of mustard on it.” Sydney, Australia and Washington, D.C.: strippers are on strike for better working conditions and not having to grind to long, fast numbers on the jukebox, respectively. Chicago: this year’s curriculum at the University of Chicago includes body language, moon rocks, women, dizziness, and the Loch Ness Monster. Piraeus, Greece: Mr. Constantine Daoutis, furious that waiter Nicos Anagnostopoulos would not serve him a bowl of tripe soup, bit off the waiter’s ear. Doctors in Athens who sewed Mr. Anagnostopoulos’ ear back on reported that they deal with two or three such cases a year. Boston: Mr. Mordecai Swell, buttered and salted but intact, emerged from a giant popcorn popper to collect his $100 bet. Kansas City: depositors of $5,000 at a local savings and loan are offered dinner with Mr. Burt Reynolds.

Senator Thomas J. McIntyre of New Hampshire has urged the Federal Trade Commission to ban some oil company ads because they are “not only disgusting but blatantly false and deceptive.” To show the need for firm censorship, Senator McIntyre stated that “we are being told the shortages are the result of misguided government policies.”

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Cultural notes. Fort Worth: a group of uglies recently picketed an airline’s office offering jobs to “goodlooking” people. Detroit: Mr. Algene Choate has sued the school board for forcing his son “to eat a sandwich with an abnormally large amount of mustard on it.” Sydney, Australia and Washington, D.C.: strippers are on strike for better working conditions and not having to grind to long, fast numbers on the jukebox, respectively. Chicago: this year’s curriculum at the University of Chicago includes body language, moon rocks, women, dizziness, and the Loch Ness Monster. Piraeus, Greece: Mr. Constantine Daoutis, furious that waiter Nicos Anagnostopoulos would not serve him a bowl of tripe soup, bit off the waiter’s ear. Doctors in Athens who sewed Mr. Anagnostopoulos’ ear back on reported that they deal with two or three such cases a year. Boston: Mr. Mordecai Swell, buttered and salted but intact, emerged from a giant popcorn popper to collect his $100 bet. Kansas City: depositors of $5,000 at a local savings and loan are offered dinner with Mr. Burt Reynolds.

Senator Thomas J. McIntyre of New Hampshire has urged the Federal Trade Commission to ban some oil company ads because they are “not only disgusting but blatantly false and deceptive.” To show the need for firm censorship, Senator McIntyre stated that “we are being told the shortages are the result of misguided government policies.”