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...love you Amber Jim. I do. You amaze...
During his last two months of life, Gary Mark Gilmore was engaged in a strange and increasingly emotional correspondence with a girl named Amber Edwina Hunt and nicknamed Amber Jim. The daughter of a janitor in Murray, Utah, she is the state's first female Golden Glove boxer. She has won her first eight fights (against boys), seven of them by technical knockouts in the first round, the eighth in the second. She is a blonde fifth-grader, age eleven...
...Amber Jim read about Gilmore's determination to be executed and wrote him a letter to ask why he wanted to die. "I just thought he might be lonely," she explained last week to TIME'S David R. Frazier. She wrote Gilmore that she believed in reincarnation. She also asked him what his favorite color was. Gilmore was touched. He wrote back to say that he wanted to die because "I'm not a nice person; I don't want to cause any more harm. I've harmed too many people and by doing...
...entertainment. Abandoned by Hollywood as too corny and too expensive to produce, shunned by television as unsuitable for the small screen, the costume epic is taking over the bookstalls. Not since the desperate '30s and wartime '40s brought forth Anthony Adverse, Gone With the Wind and Forever Amber have U.S. readers attempted collective escape into the past on such a scale. In 1976 U.S. softcover publishers issued more than 150 historical novels, many of them as paperback originals, and sold better than 40 million copies -about two books a second. In 1977 sales are expected to improve...
...GREEK WORD for newspapers is ephemeris, which is where we get ephemeral: short-lived, transitory. That's what most journalism is--stories that are here today, of practically no interest tomorrow, but caught for the moment like flies in amber. In that sense, the best journalists are the best fly-catchers, and very occasionally, fly swatters...