Word: boye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about 12:30 when a drunken security guard at one of the electric power stations across town went berserk, throwing switches at random and putting all of Memphis into darkness on the eye of the first anniversary of Elvis's death, as if in great, silent tribute to the boy who dared to rock. The tribute was lost on most of the girls, who bolted and locked their doors, and sat or slept quietly within. I wandered the dark halls, accidentally meeting the hotel guest carrying the revolver, who told horror stories about hotels and blackouts and police strikes...
...small boy hurried through the ticket gate at Harvard Stadium and proceeded to Section 42, Row F, Seats 3 and 4. The man, in his 30s and his best tweed jacket, moved toward the seats instinctively. Why not? This was his 15th straight season in those seats, and likewise it was 15 years since he had sat with his fellow undergraduates, cursing out the season ticket holders and their better accomodations. Now he was drawing the curse. Oh well...
...boy, maybe 11 or 12 years old, peered around wide-eyed. This was his first Harvard football game. Things seemed so strange, and Mister Rogers was not on hand with the answers. Maybe the man, who served also as his father, could explain this sudden onrush of the bizarre...
...Star-Spangled Banner droned to an off-key finish. The boy and his father sat down...
BORN. To Bruce Jenner, 29, Olympic decathlon gold medalist of 1976 and television personality, and Chrystie Jenner, 30, former flight attendant: a boy, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Burton William. Weight...