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Joseph Hell USC Writi Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22 and the current bestseller Good As Gold will be featured in the second annual USC Writers Series tonight at 8 p.m. in the Belk auditorium of the Business Administration building. Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly a professor of English at City College and a Fulbright scholar at Oxford University, he now lives in Manhatten. After sixty dangerous missions as a bombardier in World War II, he began writing Catch-22 and when the funny shocking novel about war and death was completed eight years later. Heller became an overnight sensation. Heller first exposed his crazy brand of truth to the world with Catch-22 and the world loved it. There are a phenomenal 8,000,000 copies in print and it has been translated into over a dozen languages, but Catch 22 is much more than a bestseller. The The Left Han less exciting than watching two banks merge. Some stalls can last almost an entire game, and Dirk Kirkson wrote his doctoral dissertation, got married and fathered two children during a stall in the UNC-Marquette game of 1972. I wnere the jods are MB I & how to get them <. , ~ _ \ ^1^/, , f SJ-- -zrL~- ^ ^ J -J-'V | am jflflB us up. We hf on this wee' JHn Bookstore. MjH Drop in an PSSSSSSHL "YourPartn Paid for by Kennedy for President Committee, 1290 22 ler launches ers Series characters are now cult figures, the title has become part of the language -- Catch-22 is practically an institution! " It is the best American novel to come out of the i second world war...the best . American novel that has come out > of anywhere,"wrote Nelson ( Algreen in the The Nation. Years after Catch 22 ,Heller's I second novel, Something Hap- I pened was published to wide acclaim, and what happened was another national bestseller in hardcofer, with over 2,000,000 copies sold in paperback. Heller has also authorized a play,/VW Bombed In New Haven. Heller's new book is in the same j spirit as his comic materpiece and I has already received acclaim, as I well as topping the major best- I seller lists. Good As Gold indicates Heller's diverse imagination ana outrageous sense of humor. He is truly a distinguished author to begin the second annual Writers Series. J From page 11 Actually, basketball can be a very exciting sport, perhaps the most exciting. More people have heart attacks watching basketball i than any other sport. This may be a good way to get rid of any old people you don't like -- treat them to good, cliffhanger basketball. ^ s,ee c^; er In Education" BOOKSTORE %-y ;nd Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. WM7 I mi? hi t imhhmumI ,< with purchase o\ any J I * V T rJ* >Submarine thru H fa?Hd rl!i f 1^ ^ rJs W^lfefeTgTal till 1H [ March 1 5, 1 980 rj Uttli^iipA^iSTifliliVriJfftiujJlhlfl*l?fii.^n(V*iwril?ifiirinJ 11"i>Twtw^B 7AS-081 ^ '' f^Free Delivery J^O^^oj^nipM ^^ays A Week " f SERVICES HELP WANTED! HOME MAID SERVICES...A HOUSEHOLD NAME IN ! RESIDENTIAL CLEANING. n Okay, so you've never heard of us. But if $4.00 an hour iffk performing simple household tasks is music to your ears, j we'd like to hear from you. a it you have some mornings or afternoons free, please jjPrT 9've us a ca" at ^88-3943. Should we be out, our | i \ answering service will be glad to take a message. Hi / / I \ Our domestic engineers work in teams of 3 persons each inj f I \ to clean most homes in 2 hours or less. fifty 108 Olde Springs Road Columbia, South Carolina 29204 j Telephone 788- 3943 I Tk&IW I \\ltMf^kDp\{nnPh, CrJlfprfiM, ey thatisYOU! %ur Jostens Ring Consultant invites you to a special viewing: { IVI/M Al ^1 At H -pwj imc w i inys udyb iviarcn d, I i/ate. 6 7 Wed F| USC Campus Time: 9:00-5:00 Place: Bookstore I iMiKm ? ?