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...certification that he was in good health, many Mormons were naturally concerned about Kimball's longevity. Some even would have liked to use his health as an excuse to change the line of succession. The real reason: their fear of the accession to the presidency of Ezra Taft Benson, 74, when Kimball dies...
BRIEFLY--Guitarist and singer of velvet soul George Benson will be at Jazz Workshop this week. There will be soul next door, too, with the Persuasions playing Paul's Mall...Boston's big-name concert this week will be the New York Dolls playing the Orpheum. Never having heard them, I hope they're better performers than whoever writes their press releases...
...GEORGE BENSON, THE PERSUASIONS--Call 267-1300 for information on Paul's Mall or Jazz Workshop...
...Benson. Ariz...
...Steve Benson, the protagonist in the brilliant The Duplex, once again serves as the focus of Bullins's work and as he skillfully juggles the novel's first and third person voices, Bullins leaves little doubt that he is Steve and that The Reluctant Rapist is his only slightly fictionalized autobiography. A picaresque tale of horror and beauty, failure and success, the novel begins with a street scene in Watts and in a series of flashbacks recalls Steve's--Bullins's life journey, a peregrination motivated by "the memory of the past, of his wasted years from where he came...