L.A.’s ambassador of good will, he wasn’t:A...

L.A.’s ambassador of good will, he wasn’t:

A Los Angeles attorney was walking down a street in Helena, Mont., with resident Bruce Loble when a car pulled up alongside them.

“The people in the car seemed to be looking at us, or maybe at the building behind us, or who knows what,” said Loble, also an attorney.

Whatever, the Southern Californian didn’t take any chances.

“He began to get very nervous and then he actually hunkered down behind a parked car until the other car moved on,” said Loble. “Afterward he explained that in L.A. people are sometimes initiated into gangs by shooting pedestrians.”

After the barrister took cover, the car moved on. It didn’t even have California plates.

Dept. of Eye-Catching Press Releases:

“Women with low sexual desire are sought for a UCLA study of a new drug to treat the condition,” says a bulletin from the school’s Center for the Health Sciences. “Subjects must be at least 21, in good health, have been in a stable, single-partner relationship for the past year, and have been experiencing the problem for more than six months and less than 10 years.”

Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif.) and Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Highland) announced at a press conference in Westwood that they’ve introduced legislation that would authorize the issuance of $4 billion in bonds to battle narcotics trafficking. Recalling the use of War Bonds during World War II, Wilson and Lewis dubbed their proposed securities Drug War Bonds.

Elvis Presley sang “Loving You” to the not-always-appreciated Los Angeles City Council at the start of Wednesday’s session. It wasn’t a surprise personal appearance or anything like that, though. A nostalgic council aide had arranged to have the recording played over the speaker system on the 12th anniversary of the King’s alleged death.

USC graduate student Greg Spring, the 1989 recipient of the Art Buchwald Scholarship, isn’t wasting the $2,000 award on anything as dull as tuition, housing or books.

No, he decided to use it to pay for his expenses while following the Grateful Dead from concert to concert.

Buchwald, the nationally syndicated columnist, wouldn’t have it any other way. The criteria for the scholarship, as laid down by Buchwald, are:

“The student would be anti-establishment, contemptuous of the scholarship and willing to bite the hand that feeds him.”

Sounds like a Deadhead.