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Hurry! Offer good while supply lasts! 303 W. University*846-1616 TM The Flying Tomato is a registered trademark (5) 1986 Flying Tomato Inc. Page 4BrThe BattalionATuesday, September 2, 1986 mYi® Chi pS™ welcome All Collegiate Women Go Bananas With Axa A National Women’s Sorority Sept. 9,10 7:00 pm (nice dress) College Station Community Center For more information call: Marcie Mann 693-2527 Jill Simiens 260-0438 Sandee Smith 696-5826 A Change of Hobbit pays off Sci-fi fan runs bookstore SANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) — When Sherry Gottlieb started reading the Oz books as a child, she was a goner. Her father saw no harm in it. He had a complete set of the Frank Baum classics from his own childhood. One by one he put one on her bed and she devoured them. When the supply ran out, she went to the public library and consumed all the fairy tales. All of them. Today, next to a gas station on Lincoln Boulevard in this sea shore town. Sherry runs what may be the largest and oldest sci ence Fiction bookshop in the world, called A Change of Hob bit, after Tolkien’s creatures. She keeps a Colombian boa constric tor named Wrinklesnakeskin (af ter Rumplestiltskin) as a pet, dyes her forelocks purple and gener ally lives as she pleases. Here, in her one-floor estab lishment, she has 75,000 books and 4,800 square feet of floor space which she fills when the likes of an Arthur C. Clarke come to autograph books. She hosts im portant science fiction writers about 15 times a year. How did she get from ()/ to here? Not by the whirlwind that more often than not lands one in Kansas. She attended the L'niver- sitv of California, Berkelev, be tween the free speech movement and People’s Park. When she graduated with a bachelors degree in Theater Arts- Plavwriting, the only jobs she could get were as a secretary or a waitress. She gave in to the secre tarial side in a film rental library. Women’s Liberation was just blooming and, she said, “after two years my mind began to rot from disuse. "I quit my job and my then husband said, ‘Well what are you going to do now?' and there was some worry in his voice because he was at the University of South ern California in film school. “I said, Tm going to read sci ence fiction until 1 run out of money and then I’m going to worry about it.’ ” She said she wished there was a science fiction bookstore in Lm Angeles like the world's oldev and largest that she had visitdin London. That one was called “Dark They Were And Golden- eved.” after a line from writer Rav Bradbury. She copied all the names of publishers from her own collec tion of paperbacks, wrote to them to order hooks, found a l2-by-15- foot room ov er a coin laundry in Westwood Village hard bv L'CLA. and invested S 1.500 in savings. 1 he owner wouldn't let hei put a sign out f ront, so it was all word- of-mouth. A local seller of gen eral hooks put a sign on his sci ence fiction section, directing hul! s to Sheri \ ‘s. She had no tele phone for the first five months. Sc fo (AP) : launched of the sole Peter with sonn co-wrote ; Lverv time she sold a book she'd reorder. She had only one copy of everything. She knows now that even as proprietor of the world’s largest and oldest, she'll never get rich, may be never ev en Ik* able to bus a home. But she enjoys. I the theme III.’’ “Gloi I Warner 1 I Solitaire.” I Artists sot Since 1 I bassist in ( I collective! I viduals. f | Kath, win June of 1; member t< "Basica more and then," Get solo albur ■ give me tl I little bit < I was the tu ■ cago shou II took a li | turned int He hac I when River raft trips inspire jazz group NEW YORK (AP) — Five jazz mu sicians, instruments in hand, rode rubber raf ts down the rapids of the Colorado River through the Grand Canvon in search of some new sounds. The cello player got dunked once, but that was the only sour note. That adventure by the Paul Win ter Consort, a group that often gets its inspiration f rom whales and other creatures of the wild, resulted in an hour-long PBS-TV special, “Canyon Consort,” which will be shown Wednesday night, Sept. 3, via KAET in Phoenix, Ariz. “Usually we would raft in the morning, going 20 or 30 miles,” says Paul Winter, saxophonist, composer and leader of the group. “We’d find a grotto or cave and make music all afternoon.” Winter and his group have rafted through the Grand Canyon four times since 1980, originally to create some new jazz for a record album ti tled “Canyon." "On the second trip, the cellist's raft flipped,” Winter says. “He came up fine, finished riding through the rapids on top of the overturned raft. We dried the cello out in the sun. The case wasn’t in very good shape but the cello survived." When friends suggested that a Grand Canyon trip should be filmed, Winter got interested. “It would show the challenge of trans lating into music some vision you have at the moment,” he said. "We approach it all through our instru ments and improv ising.” So the third rafting trip, in April 1984, was filmed. They've also made v ideos which will he distributed na tionally this fall. Winter, born in Altoona, Pa., has placed the soprano sax, piano and clarinet since lie was (i, and has had hands since he was 12. While study ing at Northwestern, with tlieintrl tiou of going to law school, fl dreamed of placing with Stan kr I ton. "Mv jazz sextet won an intercoltl giate jazz festiv al and received art! cord contract at Columbia," hesatl “Later that year the State Deprl mem sent us to 23 countries in Lrj America. It totally changedourli^l I knew there was far more I (outI conti ibure to the world throui;hn;.| sic than I ever could as a lawyer.” I a rn J Kid" was I I'The sony I changes L) I cord prod Isingaroun land saw tl In 1975, Winter went onaGrter peace expedition of f British Coluit bia and played music to whale*. Du^ inspired "Ocean Dream" in hisiB bum "Common Ground." "I wanted to use the melodyoftkl whale its played on our instnj ments," lie says. "We could crctiil whales as co-composers; publishinil royalties went to sea mammal otpl ni/ations." Florida woman never ‘tires' of job HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — On the job, it’s impossible for Nancy Lima to look spick-and-span for very long. Her hands get greasy-dirty, her clothes become soiled and wot Ic ing in the searing heat of south Flor ida summers makes anyone per spire. But, if you need a fiat tire re paired or you’ve purchased some used tires at a garage on State Road 7, this woman will get you back on the road. “I couldn’t sit at home,” Lima, 27, said as she handily wheeled a jack under a car that had a slow leak in a rear tire, “and I could never work in an office.” With her hair secured by a rubber band and a cigarette dangling from her mouth, she removed the wheel and carried it to a machine used to separate the tire from the rim. away, seemingly intimidated by the 126-pound woman. Lima said: “1 saw this ad for a tire changer and answered it as a joke. I watched someone do the work and thought it was easy." Admittedly, there were some sore muscles the first couple of weeks al ter she took the job a few months ago- “Getting the tires off and on is the hardest part of the job," she said. After repairing the leak, she car ried the 50-pound wheel to a water tank to check the repair and then re placed it on the vehicle. The driver was soon on his wav. The car’s driver, a husky young man, stood quietly some distance At work, Lima does little to em phasize that she's a woman. Her work clothes consist of worn jeans and a T-shirt. Her only jewelry is a thin gold chain around her neck. Her walk resembles that of a cow boy, indicative of her teen-age years when she worked as a groom at horse tracks in Illinois. Arkansasai*i Florida. Off the job, however, she perfume and makeup, and sayssl* enjoys baking. “1 like to dress up," she said,bj added it's usually in slacks ant blouses. “I have only one dress.” The only feminine amenity shea! I, lows herself during her six-day won f week is fingernail polish. At times, Lima’s work is rathfi strenuous. Many of the tiresaretoi trucks. The bigger tires require hti to work with a sledgehammer ami crowbar. "1 can handle them (truck tireslii they weigh up to 100 pounds. Somt- times if I need a little male helplrt- cruit it.” Lima, who is divorced, lives ini small apartment nearby and hast plans to change jobs right now. ‘Physically, it’s the toughest I’ve ever had,” she said. “Mental!' it’s the easiest.” Mar kille whil' DALU old man si elderly c< neighbor! night drir maldehyd Brian 1 ing held tion of ca| bing cleat and his 75 Police s found ear ers respor atlbe Oak In a jai with The Roberson night smo called “wa let him ir asked to u ”1 want c Ifie‘Wferd is getting around... CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST A weekly meeting designed to help Christians learn how to experience a more abundant Christian life and learn how to communicate their faith to others effectively. 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