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...Synanon, founded by Dederich 20 years ago as a rehabilitation organization for alcoholics and drug addicts, had done worthy work, but in recent years had become a capriciously governed and toughly disciplined cult. Soon after the snake attack, police arrested two suspects: Synanon Members Joseph Musico, 28, and Lance Kenton, 20, the son of Bandleader Stan Kenton. Synanon has steadfastly maintained that it "had no involvement in the attack...
...days later Lance Kenton, 20, the son of Bandleader Stan Kenton, and Joseph Musico, 28, were taken into custody by Los Angeles police in connection with the rattlesnake attack. Both men are members of Synanon, a drug rehabilitation group based in Badger, Calif...
...Haley recalls clearly how the whole thing began-with a win that changed her life. It was in 1947 when she was walking to work in Kenton, Ohio, a new graduate of a Lima, Ohio, beauty school. She was munching a 100 Queen Anne Pecan Roll with a jingle on the wrapper: "Jimmy bought a jingle bar,/ He loved each luscious bite;/ Said he, Queen Anne's jingle bar . . ." Diane filled in the last line with "Is fit for a king all right." She won two motor scooters, which she promptly sold for $500. With the money she bought...
...growth of jazz, however, has not always been so assured. In the 1960s jazz became ingrown and uncertain. Musicians have always regarded each other suspiciously across the generations. In the '30s, Dixieland distrusted swing. In the '40s, swing mocked bop. In the '50s, when people like Stan Kenton and Dave Brubeck were experimenting with progressive harmonies and other far-out ideas, many audiences found the music too cerebral...
...Britain; they in turn sold out in 1972 for $12.8 million to a syndicate headed by Robert Hocq, a brash French industrialist. In 1974 Hocq organized another group to buy the London house. And in January still another European syndicate purchased the U.S. operation for $9.5 million from Kenton Corp., a holding company that had owned the New York store since 1968. This month the deal was finally sealed when Hocq signed a contract to manage the New York firm...