European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 6, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 b the stars and stripes Friday March 6,1992 faces n places 17-year-old earning degree of College Success that few find from wire reports As a 17-year-old about to graduate from Delta state University with a perfect Grade Point average its hard for Joshua Mann to avoid the comparisons to Doogie Howser , but the chemistry major declared that a i want to be known As Joshua Mann not Doogie a the teen age doctor in the Abc to series. A a in be wanted to be a doctor since i was a  University officials said they think Mann who turns 18 on May 28, will be the youngest to earn a degree since the Cleveland miss., school opened in 1925. Mann is juggling eight courses this semester ranging from genetics to Spanish to computer science. He figures he gets about six hours sleep a night. He earned his High school equivalency degree As a ninth grader at Stone county High school and entered Gulf coast Community College in Perl Aston As a 13-year-old. His parents Noel and Angelyn Kaye Mann teach chemistry there. He arrived at Delta state in january 1991 after two years at Gulf coast. A i see him studying late at night and Early in the morning a said senior Rodney Mason 21, of Greenville who lives nearby in Noel Hall. But Mann does no to keep his head buried in books Mason said. A a he a real helpful. He a got a very Friendly upbeat attitude Quot he said. Mann has been accepted at the University of Mississippi medical school in Jackson and the University of South Alabama in Mobile and is pondering the  suffers stroke rabbi Menachem m. Schneerson the Leader of the Zubavitch hasidic movement is recuperating at the group s Headquarters in Crown Heights Brooklyn after suffering a stroke monday afternoon. The 89-year-old grand rabbi was visiting the grave of his father in Law and predecessor in the position rabbi Joseph i. Schneersohn at the old Montefiore cemetery in Queens when he became ill. A i called hat Zolah the jewish ambulance service and he said he wanted to go Back to his office a said rabbi Yehuda Krinsky a spokesman for the movement. A the has been watched and treated there  the prognosis for Schneerson the seventh in a line of Zubavitch leaders is excellent Krinsky said. A but he is not keen on this enforced hiatus a he said. A the has always kept up an exhausting schedule that people half his age could not keep up  on sunday for example Schneerson spent six hours greeting thousands of people who sought his Blessing. A to each one he gives a nod and a smile a Krinsky said. A the stands there the whole time. There is no intermission and he does no to Stop until the last person is gone a writers being honoured Syracuse University in new York state is in the news More for basketball than for literature. But its literary achievements will be celebrated tuesday when some of the most illustrious graduates and faculty of the University gather at Lubin House its Center in Manhattan to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the schools graduate program in creative writing. Among those expected Are Jay Mclnerney Ken Auletta Michael Herr William Safyre and Richard Elman. They Are All graduates of either the University or of the creative writing program. Other graduates of the program include Mary Gordon Susan Hubbard Robert Olmstead and Greg Barron the novelists. The program has produced poets too including Brooks Haxton Larry Loveth Carol Frost and Carolyn Wright. A when i realized who some of the alumni were i was surprised that so Many Good writers went there a said Morton l. Janklow the literary agent and lawyer who graduated in 1950. Janklow will be a chairman of the evening with Barbara Goldsmith who received an honorary degree in 1981, and whose father Joseph Lubin donated Lubin  ignored note a planned communications breakdown helped bring the world the film classic Gunge Din Douglas Fairbanks or. Says. Visiting a veterans Hospital in Albany n.y., this week the 82-year-old actor recalled making the 1939 film with Cary Grant Joan Fontaine Victor Mclaglen and Sam Jaffe. With expenses soaring he Grant and director George Stevens got a memo directing them to Stop  ready la Taya Jackson rehearses at Paris Moulin Rouge cabaret on wednesday As she pro pares of the opening of her show Quot formidable Jackson edit perform at the Moutin Rouge unfit the end of the year. A we knew we were onto something Good so i said a lets just pretend we did no to get the  we Tore it up and went on working a Fairbanks  helps out humorist Jerry Clower plans to meet with a Texas boy whose Mother credits the grand Ole opry Star with helping bring the youngster out of a coma. Brent thrasher a 15-year-old from Henderson Texas was shot in the head in a 1986 Hunting Accident. He emerged from a coma two weeks later after relatives played one of Clowers tapes for him. A the started laughing and it was the first time we got any emotional response from him a said his Mother Jane thrasher. Brent whose vision and memory Are impaired has returned to school. Clower is scheduled to appear in Henderson in june. A a we la get them together that a for sure a said Tandy Rice his  March sales Don t kid around that s right. For children Sale is the hot word. Special user aver books this month offer great deals for the kids