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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Warren Jones, by contrast, was something of a weirdo. As a boy in the casket-making town of Lynn, Ind., he used to conduct elaborate funeral services for dead pets. Later, as a struggling preacher, he went from door to door, in bow tie and tweed jacket, selling imported monkeys. After briefly fleeing to South America (a shelter, he believed, from an imminent nuclear holocaust), the man who regarded himself as a reincarnation of Lenin settled in Northern California and opened some convalescent homes. Then, one humid day in the jungles of Guyana, he ordered his followers to drink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Weirdos and Eccentrics | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

Piltch also pointed to the fact that his players from 8-12 are all pretty much even. Grace Sheffield, Mary Cist, Lynn Swett, and Sarah Bayliss will vary up and down the line-up during the rest of the season...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Not Poor Sisters | 12/2/1987 | See Source »

...Sarah Bayliss, H, def. Cathy Hart, B. 15-7, 15-5, 15-2; 7th: Kathryn Moffet, H, def. Mildred Godburt. B, 15-7, 15-5, 15-8; 8th: Sarah Nickerson, H, def. Julie Filler, B, 15-1, 15-0, 15-11; 9th: Kristin Walter, H, def. Lynn Warner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Squash 8, Bowdoin 1 | 11/25/1987 | See Source »

Simon and Schuster bought the book to include in the opening of their new Pocket Books hardcover line for "double the price" that any other unpublished author had ever received from any publishing firm, says Thernstorm's literary agent Lynn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Recent Alumna's Summa Thesis Reaps Large Rewards | 10/16/1987 | See Source »

...hinted at serious commitment in songs such as The River's "I Wanna Marry You" and "Two Hearts (Are Better Than One)." But he was still insisting to biographer Dave Marsh that he was "not ready to write married music yet." Girlfriends like professional groupie Karen Darbin, photographer Lynn Goldsmith and actress Joyce Heiser came and went...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Married in the U.S.A. | 10/13/1987 | See Source »

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