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...Czar acknowledges with regret that financial considerations prevent him from stocking the library with pricy underground comics; he especially laments the absence in the collection of "Zippy the Pinhead." "It's very drug-induced," he explains...
...keeping their eyes on Paul Isaacs, a sophomore whom many say is being groomed for the job. "I'd really like take over the collection," says Isaacs. "There's a couple of comics that aren't there now that I'd really like to see. Like Zippy the Pinhead...
Intent on refuting potential criticism of Olde English snobbery, the editors seem to have gone out of their way to find Americanisms. "Hoity-toity," "WATS line," "umpteen," "pinhead," and the verb to "off" (kill) are all defined; the editors do, however, miss a couple, such as "dive," as in a bad or dangerous restaurant or bar, and "hyper." Occasional usage notes do slip into an unpleasant pedantic style: "Careful writers use dived rather than dove in the past tense." But even less frequent notes on the origin or phrases turn up interesting information; the term "poobah," for example, a person...
...aware of the doubts about his brainpower, and occasionally jokes about the subject. He told one audience, "I'm not smart enough to lie," and quipped to construction workers in New York City the other day that a proffered hard hat would not fit because "I have a pinhead." But the humor is forced; cracks about his intelligence obviously hurt...
Prompt Treatment. Humphrey's chances were vastly improved by the fact that his doctors had been on the lookout for cancer ever since they had found and removed several pinhead-size nonmalignant growths in his bladder in 1968. Five years later, they discovered some new, possibly cancerous tissue, which was promptly treated with the anticancer drug thiotepa and sessions of X-ray therapy that took five minutes a day for five weeks. ("The worst experience in my life," Humphrey recalls.) The therapy worked and the Senator was found cancer-free for three years, but a recent examination...