Sunday, March 21, 1 976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Sunday, March 21, 1 976 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five PROFI LE The pharmacist: Catering cures for the tired and N By LOIS JOSIMOVICH Kreye notes, shrugging his here, I guess"), and in 1960 smoothly into his native lan- shoulders at the suggestion that took charge of the Apothe-,guage. "HAVE YOU EVER heard of overuse of the depressant might cary. the Pied Piper of Hame- be a problem around the Uni-IN HIS ALCOVE above the lin?" asks Fred Kreye. versity. QIXTEEN YEARS LATER, the rest of the store he can see, The question arouses visions graying Kreye has a solid past rows of wine bottles and of a dreamy-eyed figure moving "WELL, YOU KNOW, people core of faithful customers as stacks of pantyhose, the people toward a river bank, flute in are under pressure a lot," well as the more transitory passing on the street. But oth-, hand, driving the rats of a dis- he says. "They resort to some- student clientele. Often lively er than that, Kreye is isolatedi ease-ridden town into the water. thing that's traditional." greetings are exchanged be- in his quiet corner, where neati According to the pharmacist, tween the white-coated proprie- shelves of multicolored pill and "That's where I come from, the most popular items on his tor and his customer-friends. medicine bottles reach the ceil- says the pharmacist, shattering inventory are tetracycline and ing. the thought. His eyes gleam other dermatological prepara- Iskc gently behind a pair of half- tions. Contraceptives are also I like to be a small bjoy A skylight in the corner, parti- oval glasses that sat at the end "big business," as well as his nessman,, he says.