Byron's Manfred is Dr. Doom

            On Tuesday I was able to successfully apply for OSAP but there was no link for requesting the “grant only” option. I tried again to submit my Noah Melts grant application because it had been suggested to me at the Admissions office that it would go through after I'd applied for OSAP, but the site still wouldn’t let me complete the application. I charged my laptop so I can take it in to Admissions on Wednesday to see if they can help me.

            I weighed 91.3 kilos, which is down a kilo from two days before.

            I read most of Manfred by Lord Byron. He’s an interesting character. He reminds me of Dr. Doom.

            I cut up and roasted a chicken and had a leg of it with a potato and some gravy while watching Peter Gunn.

            In this story, Lois, the naïve but strong willed daughter of a wealthy banker named Girard has taken a gangster named Frank Loomis under her wing. She pulled strings to get him paroled from prison and persuaded her nervous father to give him a job in his bank. Loomis has moved into the Girard mansion and has begun using it as the headquarters of his new crime operation, he first stages of which are to rub out the competition. A few hits have already been made. Girard hires Gunn to find a way to stop Loomis. Gunn gets information from a retired second-story man named Sylvester (who is now in business selling burglary kits) that Loomis and his gang are meeting at a certain hunting lodge. Gunn and the cops go there but the crooks have been tipped off. The cops leave but as Gunn is driving home his car is riddled with bullets. Loomis thinks Gunn is dead and Gunn wants to take advantage of that falsehood. He arranges a useless meeting with Lois to tell her that he’s alive and not to tell Loomis. The meeting seems to be just an excuse to show how dumb and flirtatious Lois is. Because Sylvester had almost gotten Gunn killed by ratting to Loomis, Gunn forces him to call Loomis and demand $1000 in exchange for his silence about Gunn’s murder. Two hoods arrive at Sylvester’s place to kill him but Gunn and Jacoby take them out. They send Sylvester to confront Loomis at the Girard house. Loomis pulls a pistol and is shot by Gunn and Jacoby. Lois does not seem all that broken up about Loomis’s end, as just then the doorbell rings. A card of introduction is handed to the butler by an upside down food and we see a man in turban standing on his head on the threshold. Lois is thrilled to see that her guru Yahama has arrived from India. She stands on her head next to her yoga instructor and informs her father that he will be moving in.

            Lois was played by Selette Cole, who made a few minor films in the 60s and later did a lot of cartoon voice work. She was married to George Eckstein, who was a television producer, director and writer. He co-wrote the series finale of The Fugitive.