European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 20, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 c the stars and stripes tuesday August 20, 1991 500 words win Best of worst Faulkner. A a a 4 i a 1 Airl Oxford miss. Apr a track Down obscure adjectives use Little punctuation throw in a lot of country Wisdom inappropriately and have a couple of bourbons ahead of time. A its the winning concoction for a Faux Faulkner a a Competition to write just like the late Mississippi master a but badly. Gregory Sendi said he used a few Clandestine hours at his Chicago marketing office to pen his entry in the second annual Competition. A lifelong admirer of the late William Faulkner the 27-year-old Sendi bested More than 750 others and got a wee Kiong trip to Oxford Faulkner a Hometown. A once i settled on the joke the prose came kind of easy a the fiction and Public relations writer said a a it a just a matter of finding the right adjectives and stringing them into Long sentences until it just seems Sendio a 500-word spoof of a civil War colonel visiting Kentucky Fried Chicken goes like this a and so the old colonel used them the Only Way he knew How the spices eleven of them and the chickens themselves countless untold bucket and Barre Fuls the woman his wife waiting even until the Day Twenty seven years later when Ratliff would himself walk into the tiny Well lighted franchise. And say a extra crispy to the girl behind the Register not because it was what he wanted nor because it was not original recipe a Sendi was honoured for his putrid prose at a conference in Oxford. Along with two tickets anywhere american airlines flies he got to read his entry from the porch of Faulkner soak lined estate. A it was kind of daunting to stand on the porch and get to read my joke a he said. Dean Faulkner Wells Niece of the late author and a coordinator of the Faux Faulkner contest said Sendi and other bad Faulkner writers understand the 1949 Nobel prize winning author. A fall of these people really know their Faulkner a she said. A they Nave intelligence and wit. They have taken it to another level. Wells is editing a Book of write a like entries. The Best of bad Faulkner published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich will be put come fall. Sendio a the old colonel beat out entries such As the sound and the fury appendix ii and abets Saloon abets Saloon. Faulkner a works include intruder in the dust the sound and the fury the a vanquished Light in August and Absalom Absalom Sendi said he was challenged by the Prospect of imitating Faulkner who died in 1962. A i was trying to poke fun at something like Faulkner did a the ability to give simple Ordinary people great dignity. If you push that a Little too far it becomes absurd a Sendi said. Last year Sal Rosenberg of London won with Delta Faulkner. A it seems like Only a Yankee or an englishman can get Faulkner wrong enough to win a Sendi Marcos awaits return to Hen Ortaleza a Security guard keeps an Eye on the crypt housing the remains of deposed philippine president Ferdinand Marcos near Honolulu Hawaii. Honolulu apr the body of Ferdinand Marcos lies in an air conditioned shed High up on a Cool Steep Mountainside primed and ready for an imminent return to the Philippines. The casket which is reported to contain his favorite pyjamas and golfing hat was not buried after the deposed Philippines Leader died in exile Here in 1989 because supporters hoped to Lay him to rest in his Homeland. That time is drawing near. Philippine president Corazon Aquino a chief aids executive Secretary Franklin Drilon said last week that Marcos remains will be allowed Back before Aquino a term ends next june. A Marcos has a human right a divine right and a Legal right to be buried at Home a said Joe Lazo a longtime family Friend whose group friends of Marcos provided round the clock Volunteer guards for the crypt. The tin and stucco walled shed containing the refrigerated above ground crypt is nestled in the Valley of the temples memorial Park near Honolulu with a panoramic View of the valleys Lush growth and Ocean inlets. Philippine authorities had refused to allow the body a return out of concern that both rightist and leftist extremists would exploit the funeral to undermine the Aquino government Drilon said. Marcos was ousted in 1986 in a popular uprising that ushered Aquino to Power. Since his death there have been no reported intrusions at the crypt site. A Cool Breeze rustles tropical Trees that Shade the Sheds peaked roof and a portable air conditioner hums steadily. Above the Trees a tattered philippine Flag flutters beside its american counterpart. Green indoor outdoor carpet muffles footsteps across the porch of the shed. Inside Glass doors the Black and Bronze coffin sits in a plywood berth under the presidential Seal of the Philippines guards Are equipped with two wrought Iron benches and a television set sheltered by a Blue plastic Tarpaulin. One guard who said he came to Hawaii on Marcos Domestic staff believes the body would be better off Here. A people Here in Hawaii Are very Good not like the other place a if they go there i think there a trouble a Ben Ortaleza said. Imelda Marcos is expected to return to Hawaii from new York next month for celebrations marking the second anniversary of her husbands death on sept. 28, 1989, and what would have been his 74th birthday on sept. 11, philippine Consul general Pedro Chan said last week. A we got word that Over the weekend they changed the garment of the body to a barong a the philippine National costume a Chan said. At a similar ceremony last year Imelda Marcos led a chorus of 250 people singing a Happy birthday to the Corpse. Patient improving after mix up forces second heart transplant Portland Ore. Up a a transplant recipient who first received a mismatched heart but then got a compatible Organ on the second try was a doing Well monday Hospital officials said. The unidentified Portland area Man was taken off a ventilator that helped him breathe said Sandy Poole a spokeswoman for the Oregon health sciences University. A a it a just a really Good sign of being very stable a Poole said. A a he a doing Well although still groggy the patient was also beginning to talk but Poole did not know what he had said. She said doctors hoped the Man would begin taking liquid nourishment on his own later monday or today the patient was in critical but stable condition Normal for someone who has undergone a heart transplant 24 hours earlier Poole said. Doctors at the University transplanted the new heart into the Man Early sunday four Days after the same surgical team accidentally gave the patient a heart of the wrong blood Type. Hospital administrators said a a mix up in communication Quot resulted in surgeons unintentionally giving the Man a heart of blood Type a on wednesday even though his blood is Type o. After discovering their mistake Hospital officials spent four Days desperately searching for a compatible heart. They found such an Organ saturday night and performed the second transplant Between 2 30 . And 7 . Sunday. Hospital director Tim Goldfarb has refused to provide details of the mistake that led to the botched transplant except to say that it occurred in the a Morgan procurement Hospital administrators had been so Busy trying to figure out what went wrong that they had not considered possible disciplinary action against those involved Goldfarb said. He said punitive measures might be considered later. The Hospital immediately tightened its procedures for heart transplants saying it would request that a second blood test be done at the donor Hospital. There is too Little time to do a test at ohs after the Organ arrives because it must be transplanted within four hours Hospital officials said. Goldfarb said the patient would not be billed for either operation. The Man needed a new heart because he was suffering from cardiomyopathy a disease that weakens the murderer to admit to kidnapping Gulfport miss. Apr the drifter who led police to the body of a 10-year-old girl who he says was among his More than 60 murder victims agreed to plead guilty monday to kidnapping the child his attorney said. Donald Leroy Evans 34, was to appear in Federal court monday morning. Defense attorney Fred Lusk said his client would plead guilty to abducting Beatrice Louise Routh who disappeared from a Gulfport play ground aug. 1. Evan sied police to the body 10 Days later. She had been raped and strangled. After his arrest Evans claimed to have killed More than 60 people in at least 21 states. If Tnie he would be the most prolific known serial killer in . History. So far he has been charged in Only the girls staying. The drifter has so far been linked Only to Routh Skilling and two Florida slayings in 1985. Authorities refused to say whether any leads matched details provided by Evans on other cases. The kidnapping charge could bring a sentence of life in prison. He was expected to appear in state court on the murder charge sometime this week and could face the death penalty if convicted
