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Matteo Calacocci was seven years old when he stole $7 from the counter of a North End grocery store. That was in 1927. After being judged "incompetent to stand trial," he was sent to the Lyman School, where he was found "not feeble-minded," "not psychotic," and of "average" intelligence. Transferred to Worcester State Hospital in 1930 and to Boston State in 1933, he attempted to escape in 1935 and was transferred to the maximum security facility at Bridgewater. His records show that he was charged with "bad habits" and with "resisting authority...
Avatar is one of several irreverent, fuzzily written hippie newspapers that have sprung up in the U.S. It contains no more erotica than the rest; even its chief contributor, Mel Lyman, who claims to be God, is nothing out of the ordinary. Avatar differs only in that it is published in the Boston area, where such publications are traditionally frowned on. Soon after it first appeared last spring, city fathers grew restive. Cambridge City Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci set the tone by calling it the "filthiest junk I have ever laid eyes on." News dealers heard a warning in this...
...Lyman's monotony provides the best single argument for the seen-one-Avatar-you've-seen-'em-all school of criticism. Lyman may be the moving spirit behind Avatar, but he's as fascinating as the twenty-fifth installment of "The Playboy Philosophy." Avatar number 19, moreover, presents him in 28 not-so-different poses: God was never so overpublicized...
...STORY OF THE BIBLE, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut...
Wesley E. Profit '69, co-chairman of the Lyman program, is also hoping to organize volunteers to work in communities in Boston. They are trying to get the parents of the reform school boys as well as lawyers and other professionals to form action groups which could more effectively push for change in the basic structure of the reform school, perhaps through political channels...