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Second Slaughter. Los Angeles was still reeling from shock at the gruesome Tate murders when a second multiple murder occurred last week, only nine miles away and 24 hours later. Leno LaBianca, 44, the owner of four markets, and his wife Rosemary, 38, were slashed to death in their secluded home in the Los Feliz area. "It's a carbon copy," reported a policeman upon first viewing the scene, and fears of a maniac running amok quickly spread through the city. Indeed, there were chilling similarities between the two slaughters: the words ''death to pigs" smeared...
...Leno Yard was born 20 years ago in New York's teeming, fetid Harlem. Ambitious, he went .to big (7,693 pupils) DeWitt Clinton High School, where he went out for track, and studied hard. He graduated in 1941, clerked for a while in a bookstore. He wanted to help in the war. So he enrolled for a four-month course in machine-shop work at the National Youth Administration's Quoddy training center near Eastport, Me., site of the defunct Passamaquoddy power project...
...Quoddy, slim, big-muscled, dark-skinned Leno was immediately popular among the 740 white boys, 60 Negroes. He wrote pieces on sports for their paper, the Quoddy Eagle. He excelled in games, became known for sincerity and fair play, participated eagerly in the camp's student government, joined the whites and Negroes in helping Project Director Louis Varrichione run Quoddy...
Last week fellow trainees elected Leno Camp Mayor by a large majority. No politico, Leno had a simple platform: "To develop a greater war-conscious spirit in the camp." His post-election statement: "I am deeply impressed at this vote of confidence. Democracy really can work...
...Queen's Hall in 1895 that his name began to command space in the newspapers. It was then considered impossible to play good music for audiences at Promenade Concerts; they wanted to hear Goodbye, Dolly, I Must Leave You, or the airy ballads that squat Dan Leno was yodeling in the Empire Theatre. "But God bless my soul," said Henry J. Wood, "if they don't like Wagner, why God bless my soul I'll play him until they do." Soon he went further, began to make the British public interested in Russian music. When people clapped...