Word: lennon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York and Washington, D.C., have tried this by imposing severely restrictive permit requirements, backed by mandatory penalties for violations. But these tough laws will not work if nearby communities have easier ones. Mark David Chapman brought a legally purchased gun all the way from Hawaii to kill John Lennon in Manhattan. Bernard Welch stole a gun in Virginia and used it to kill Michael Halberstam, a noted cardiologist and author, in Washington. A ban would attempt to prevent any new handgun from coming into circulation; it would not affect hunting rifles and shotguns, which are more effective than pistols...
Alex Sever and ace server Paul Lennon--both up from the J.V.'s will take on all comers in the fifth and sixth positions...
...match lasting less than an hour, Harvard's Paul Lennon breezed by Phil Rieckert 6-0, 6-2, Rieckert failed to return many of Lennon's serves and "never really got started," Lennon said...
...Lennon's death brought an unexpected windfall to some. Photographer Paul Goresh's picture of Lennon autographing his new album Double Fantasy for Mark David Chapman, the alleged killer, a few hours before his death brought more than $100,000 in worldwide syndication fees. In some cases, commercialism got out of hand and taste was trampled. The New York Post published a ghoulish Page One picture of Lennon taken at the city morgue after his death, dubbing the shot "historic." The National Enquirer printed the photo in color. Us magazine raised its newsstand price to $2.50 from...
Despite the unprecedented journalistic response, there were limits. On the Sunday after Lennon's death, when many mourners observed ten minutes of silence in his memory, New York's WCBS-TV cut away from the Philadelphia Eagles-St. Louis Cardinals football game to cover the mute tribute, its cameras panning over saddened faces in Central Park. Hundreds of angry callers jammed the station's switchboard to complain...