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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most vivid memories that childhood companions have of James Warren Jones-or "Jonesie," as they called him-are of his funeral sermons for dead animals in the Indiana town of Lynn, where he was born 47 years ago. Once, when he was 13, Jones invited a group of boys to his family's barn, recalls Harlan Swift, now a Chicago insurance executive. Amid burning candles, the aspiring preacher carefully opened a matchbox, revealing a dead mouse. "He had a service all organized," recalls Swift, "a very, very intense dramatic service for that dead mouse." A former classmate, Tootie Morton...
...more pressing need than the one to find somebody to whom he can surrender, as quickly as possible, that gift of freedom which he, the unfortunate creature, was born with...
...days later, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione stopped Viva (circ. 361,000), the women's magazine he launched the same year New Times was born...
...Times has always been '60s going on '70s, a magazine born in the present decade but tailored for people who came of age during the last one, too old for Rolling Stone and too young for Commentary. For five years and 130 issues, the biweekly "feature news magazine," as New Times was subtitled, rushed into that demographic gap with a mix of eye-popping investigative reporting, idiosyncratic political analysis and scary environmental disclosures, all in a high-protein prose that virtually leaped off the page with youthful exuberance...
...match, which, we learn later, he had intended to lose because he was disturbed by the squabbling between his brothers his wrestling caused. "Why did you wait until the 22nd round if you were going to throw the match?" Cosmo asks. Victor replies, "Because I was born on the 22nd." Even Victor could not be dumb enough to get himself stomped on for 22 rounds for that reason. Stallone just wanted to show us a lot of bloody fighting...