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...could drive from here to California on a Dickens," claims Jeanne Sullivan, a librarian in Oak Park, Ill. The point is well taken; the library's copy of David Copperfield is 22 cassettes long. Says Birmingham Photographer Mike Clemmer: "I haven't made any long car trips, but when I do, I'll buy a book on tape. No more lousy radio music or CB chatter for me." Lynn Kirk, a real estate investor from Ojai, Calif., admits, "I am definitely addicted to books on tape. I cannot get into my car without them. There are no commercials...
...sojourns with foster families have all ended in failure. Since Homer seems destined to stay in St. Cloud's, Larch urges him to "be of use," and the lad complies. He begins by taking over the nightly readings to the younger children; those in the boys' wing hear David Copperfield or Great Expectations, and the girls get Jane Eyre. The idea of featuring great novels about orphans is Dr. Larch's: "What in hell else would you read to an orphan?" Homer's duties gradually extend to the obstetrical. He becomes the doctor's trusted assistant, less than a physician...
Bartenders everywhere are pensive skittery. At the Moon Shadow Saloon in Atlanta, they are showing Three Stooges tapes on Monday nights. Elsewhere in town there will be no more "happy hours" at Copperfield's until the games come back on TV. But this victory for temperance will not be celebrated by churches everywhere. "We are very disappointed," says Father Douglas Eberly, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in Mesquite, Texas. Through selling nachos, hamburgers and hot dogs at the Cowboys games, his congregation has raised $60,000 toward the construction of a parish hall, which parishioners call...
...David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens...
...lines she wrote for Mrs. Copperfield in Two Serious Ladies sum up: "I have gone to pieces, which is a thing years." I've wanted to do for years...