The Boston Globe, February 2nd, 1988
PROVIDENCE - For six months after watching Erich von Stroheim in the film "Foolish Wives," S. J. Perelman once wrote, he exhibited "a maddening tendency to click my heels and murmur 'Bitte?' along with a twitch as though a monocle were screwed into my eye. The mannerisms finally abated, but not until the dean of Brown University had taken me aside and confided that if I wanted to transfer to Heidelberg, the faculty would not stand in my way." Perelman remained in Providence for the rest of his college career, editing the campus magazine, The Brown Jug, and drawing cartoons remarkable for their...
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