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| I liked the actress, Susan St. James, when she was in a detective show on NBC about thirty years ago. About fifteen or twenty years ago, I saw her in the lobby of the IU Law School.
I’ve had a lot of involvement with network TV. I’ve encountered famous personalities in public places. Some, like the actor Mr. Gerald McRaney, seemed to be looking for a bit of verisimilitude from me that could be woven into a script. Other[s], like the late Mr. Charles Kuralt, who I once saw on the downtown mall in Louisville, Kentucky, seemed to be debating how best to pigeonhole me journalistically. Col. Neil Armstrong, who I saw twice here in Indianapolis, may have been justifiably curious about the effect I was having on his post-astronaut civilian career. (For more on that you can view the article on my web site about the work of Dr. Peter Glaser.) But in view of those experiences with well-known people—and I’ve had many others--I didn’t attach any great significance to catching sight of Susan St. James. She gave me a friendly smile. That friendly smile might have been considered a bad omen by a smarter person. However, like the men on Desperate Housewives, I suppose I’m easy enough to fool. Susan hasn’t been on TV much for a number of years now and I didn’t realize that she was married to an NBC executive until recently. Realization came when it was reported that her husband had been injured and one of their sons had been killed in a plane crash. I was shocked to hear about that and commiserate with her family’s grief and misfortune. However also I need, unfortunately, to make a somewhat different point here. About the time I saw her outside the Law Library, I had the experience of “hearing voices,” ala Evelyn Waugh on his cruise ship. [That was inside the Law Library in a semi-secluded area where I was trying to do some research.] So when I learned recently that her husband worked for NBC, I realized that either Susan or someone else at NBC probably had something to do with producing those voices about fifteen years ago. That was disappointing because, as I said, I’d liked her as an actress. More recently a new law school building was constructed. The old building was taken over by the Department of Informatics, which seems to be partly devoted to preparing young Hoosiers to work for the CIA. I spoke to two informatics professors in that building. Both had names you would probably recognize as being from the world of international intrigue. Then the old law school building was demolished. Perhaps its newer population of CIA types had realized that it had been tricked up electronically. CONTINUE |
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