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...intend to move education out over the internet and remove it from its physical presence on the campuses,” a man calling himself Professor Harrison Gresham told WNYC’s Alice Furlaud ’51.“Harvard Yard could easily be turned into condominiums. We’ve seen a great deal of interest on the part of many of the alumni in buying their old rooms so that they could be a pied-à-terre here in Cambridge when they want to come back and visit...
...hands of underground-comic pioneer Spain Rodriguez, the 1946 William Lindsay Gresham novel (later a 1947 movie) gets the cartoon treatment its subjects--hustling and degradation in a 1930s carnival--beg for. Magician Stanton Carlisle hatches a plan to pose as a spiritualist to con rich marks, in the process revealing the family history that destroyed his faith in God and man. Nightmare Alley (Fantagraphics; 129 pages) is an existential novel wrapped in a noir chiller, and Rodriguez's lurid drawings strike just the right balance of sheen and sleaze. Step right...
...from afar can also be alleviated when doctors are willing to make house calls, a retro trend that is spreading among some geriatricians. The American Academy of Home Care Physicians has 700 members, and the number is growing at a rate of 10% a year, says president-elect Dr. Gresham Bayne, who belongs to a San Diego practice of 12 doctors who only make home visits. "This kind of option allows more critically ill senior citizens to remain at home and gives great peace of mind to their family members," Bayne says. "Baby boomers don't necessarily have...
...this geek was a literal freak - a sideshow act - a man willing to growl like an animal and bite the heads off chickens for his daily fifth of cheap booze. Along with confidence men, carnies and cops, the geek is just one of the grimy characters of William Lindsay Gresham's cult 1946 novel "Nightmare Alley," now turned into a gripping graphic novel by the veteran comix artist known as Spain...
CAPTAINS Michael Crosby, Gresham Bayne...