Absolutely vital piece of scholarship, for which many thanks. A number of simple declarative statements in this text leap out at the reader, so fabulously detailed is the reporting: If I had to choose a single example it would be, a propos the end of the Allen & Rossi team: "Marty Allen dissolved the partnership, claiming that he wanted to focus on serious acting roles."

What a great photo! I'm a quiet fan of the Acheson Physicians Building, looking moribund even then ... I had a clerk-typist's job there as an undergrad in 1972, sending out literature-request postcards for a couple of public-health entomologists; I kept expecting to bump into Sam Spade in the hallway.

Gee, it wasn't *that* funny ... though Colbert (whom I admit I don't get most of the time) was polite enough to let the prof get a few words in. But what are we to make of Blum's assertion, at the very end of the clip, that he "absolutely" will eat Gulf seafood now?