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After a $50-per-week job as editorial assistant to Editor Diana Vreeland at Harper's Bazaar, Ali signed on as a photographer's helper and began to carom around New York. "I never had a hi-fi or even a sofa in those days," she recalls. "I just threw a mattress on the floor most places...
...second floor of a brick house rarely runs to more than $40 or $50 a month, including laundry and housekeeping services. Hustling is the name of the game here. This gives everyone plenty of money for anything from soul food at a restaurant called Nam's to hi-fi equipment, television sets or even heroin. Here is how the system works...
...Planet, Between Planets, Have Spacesuit- Will Travel, Pod kayne of Mars, Starman Jones, The Star Beast, The Puppet Masters, The Menace from Earth- I have read all of his books at least twice, and many of them ten or twelve times. And so have millions of sci-fi freaks around the country. I imagine that a lot of them right now are holding their heads and moaning, "Bobbie, Bobby Heinlein, how could you treat...
...Fi-Fo-Fum (at Mass Ave, and Mt. Auburn St.) is a very good second-hand store, and it has a lot of bargains on new clothes. The owner is friendly and helpful. You sort of have to take pot luck there, because it's impossible to tell just what will be in at any given time...
...time to go to a class to get a reading list-but there is other stuff to read. Someone will leave a book on the coffee table, and, if it stays there long enough, Doug will eventually pick it up and read it. Last week he read a sci-fi novel, Thomas Berger's Little Big Man, a collection of Doald Barthelme short stories and a cookbook...