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...Gerry J. Wasserman, a visiting scholar in the earth and planetary sciences department, worked with Frondel on the lunar rocks project...
...Wasserman said Frondel made reference to a ray gun possessed by a popular comic strip hero of the day to explain strange glass formations in the lunar rock samples, saying, “They’re zap craters, like in Buck Rogers...
...Luckily, amidst all these depressing encounters, there emerges a portrait of a smart, funny young woman struggling to find herself, written with the unselfconscious, often hyperbolic prose of a typical teenager. "...Ricky Ricky Ricky Wasserman, that exquisitely handsome boy," reads one description. Elsewhere she imagines seeing Monroe in twenty years when he will visit her and talk to her husband and give her "funny secret looks from across the table...and a tear will force its way from eye..." Thanks to Minnie's interest in drawing, "Diary" also has the unusual theme of showing a budding comix artist. Robert Crumb...
DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, the last of Hollywood's legendary movie moguls, who headed up MCA, the parent company of Universal Pictures, for four decades; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman worked nights as a movie usher in high school. After impressing an MCA executive while promoting talent for a Cleveland nightclub, Wasserman was hired and went on to represent such clients as Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart. Fiercely protective of his stars, Wasserman kept Clark Gable's drunk-driving arrest and Betty Grable's premarital pregnancy out of the papers. He revolutionized the film...
...Many have written of LEW WASSERMAN's power, but they don't really understand its source. It didn't derive from his powerful clients, his brain, or his pocketbook, but from the way he lived his life. Medieval knights lived by a Code of Honor. Lew lived the same...