Lizar

THE LOS .ingeles Times repoited
in September on Henry Schiff, 39,
who had his name legally changed
several years avo to Henry Liz-
ardlover Seven in tribute to the 30
companion exotic lizards he keeps
in his one-bedroom apartment
and around which he centres his
life. Henry is single and sleeps
alone on a mattress on the floor
but. says he recently had a
girlfriend until he. became weary
of her insisting on sharing her bed
with a large iguana she owned.

In November, a company called
the National Historical Mint in
Boca. Raton, Florida, hired Earl
Ruby (brother of Lee Harvey
Oswald's killer) to fire 100 bullets
from his brother’s gun into a
drum of water. The bullets will be
mounted on plaques com-
memorating the death of John F.
Kennedy and sold for around
$2,500 each.

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The. New York Tin.es reported in
July. that the Saddam Art Center
in downtown Baghdad featured a
new display of more. than 40
larger-than-life paintings of Sad-
‘dam Hussein, in the midst of
growing nation-wide demand for
Saddam portraits. All public
buildings in Iraq already feature
large, hand-painted portraits of
Saddam.

Number of television ‘sets per
“4,000 people in Canada:in 1990:
-- 641. In the United. States: 815. In
‘ Japan: 620. In Oman: 766. In
' Zaire: one. ;

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° t was :19. years ago today
,, that the lawyers taught the band

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to play. This date in 1974 marks
the anniversary of the dissolution
of the Fab Four’s legal partner-
ship. No word on how Paul,
George and Ringo plan to mark
the occasion.

And it was 47 years ago tomor-
row, December 25,. that comic
actor W.C. Fields spoke these
words from his deathbed: ‘‘! have
spent a lot of time searching
through the Bible, looking for
loopheles.’’ Brilliant comedian
Charlie Chaplin also died on
Christmas Day (in 1977).

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In June, Michael Boland, 45,
founder of the Commonwealth
School of Law in Lowell,
Massachusetts, was convicted of
arson for a 1989 incident in which
he ordered his bodyguard to set
fire to the library in the rival
Massachusetts School of Law in
Andover.

| Shaw Cable upgrades service

IF: YOU'VE: noticed, of late, the
occasional surge, blip or blurp
‘- Serossing the telly ‘screen during
“your -favorite rerun of Cheers,
chalk it up to the diligent folks at
Shaw Cable.

; . They have been busy upgrading
the amplifiers in the cable televi-
sion system. —; . ‘

According to a press release,

Not valid
with any giher
promotion,

OPEN PLAY
ONLY

$1.89

” per game.
December 26/93

January 2/94 .

Reservations piease
MORTH SHORE

periodic service interruptions will
occur, though every effort will be
made to keep them to an absolute
minimum,

Says Shaw, the work is essential
to maintain the signal quality
while upgrading capacity for new
service offerings.

They regret any inconvenience
to their customers.

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Friday, December 24, 1993

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