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...been a decade since The Beatles, looking like moddish Eton schoolboys in tailored suits, made their American debut. "It was February 9, 1964, that fateful night," says Mike DeJoseph. "The Beatles were gonna be on Ed Sullivan. It went on at 8 o'clock, past my bedtime. But I had to see the Beatles. I begged my parents to let me stay up--I said I'd go to bed at five for the rest of the week...
...crowd of Beatle people, like the frenzy that excites bargain hunters in Filene's basement. But here, price is no object. Disease, fever, obsession. Yes, it's all that, the fans agree. But don't you understand? If it's connected with The Beatles, it's important. Mike DeJoseph, who has travelled to Europe in search of Beatle records, is adamant: "I have to collect everything connected with them. I won't croak until I have everything. That's why I was sent to this earth...
...split up, succumbing to business pressures and individualism. Yet many still cherish a Messianic belief that the four will get back together. "When you are friends over 15 years, when you experience so much together, you are like brothers. They need each other," says Jacques Volcouve. Nor does Mike DeJoseph give up hope: "Every night I pray that they'll come back together. It's my own dream." In any case, the myth of the Beatles lives on. "They were the greatest social force of all time, except for the Gutenberg Bible," says Joe Pope. "Their music was the best...
Last week Stewart again dissented when the court refused to review the Connecticut case of John DeJoseph, charged with criminal nonsupport. Two Hartford judges denied DeJoseph's requests for indigent's counsel because the charge was only a misdemeanor; DeJoseph tried to defend himself and went to jail for six months. By contrast, a Connecticut federal court recently freed another man who had been jailed for exactly the same offense, simply because the state failed to tell him that he had a right to a lawyer. Said Stewart: "When the meaning of a fundamental constitutional right depends...
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