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Leonard Clairmont Honolulu...
Chapman, the son of an Atlanta bank-loan collector, liked working with children, played in a high school band and idolized Lennon. He left his job as a Honolulu security guard and flew to New York with money borrowed from his Japanese wife. After getting Lennon's autograph, he killed his hero with four hollow .38-cal. bullets. He was arrested moments later, carrying a copy of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher...
...need only look across the Pacific for an example of the fly's destructive power. Hawaii has been infested since 1910. The only fruit it exports in large quantities is the thick-skinned pineapple, which is immune to the bug. Says Dr. Leroy Williamson, a DOA scientist in Honolulu: "Prior to the fruit flies, we had an abundance of fruit. Now we compete with these insects for our food...
...some sort of defiant yahoo, some blazing anachronism. After all, by the time most of us got to him, he looked pretty silly in those white jump suits with the high collars, and that plasticene pompadour. He was singing in Vegas then--our most improbable city--or out in Honolulu, doing "Heartbreak Hotel" with a three hundred instrument string section complete with French horns. It wasn't Elvis. We thought it was and that's why we thought it was stupid. All those hundreds of thousands of leisure suited fans he drew must have been stupid, too, if that...
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