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...Hours be fore his crucial final examinations, Jim tosses his school books into a river and, like his father, packs up to live by him self. He works in a summer camp where he falls in with an affable greaser (played with wit and affection by none other than Ringo Starr). Jim learns about girls, about the niceties of shortchanging customers in the fun fair where he works with his new friend, and about the gnawing difficulties of burying the past. Un able to sort things out, he returns home, where the restrictive working-class life will make his decisions...
Strawberry Fields Forever, a fan club devoted to "the care and preservation of The Beatles," has spent most of July pushing its first Annual Beatle Convention. And now, all the hype bears its fruit. Devotees of Paul, John, George and Ringo have made the pilgrimage to Boston's Bradford Hotel. From California, from New York, from France, they have come for five hours of live Beatle music, ten hours of Beatle films, and an orgy of buying, trading and auctioning...
...look like your father." At hundreds of airports police erected barricades to protect the idols from those throbbing hearts; the Beatles staged daring escapes from their hotel rooms in refrigerated meat wagons. "I was in shock for five minutes," says a blonde girl wearing an over-sized "I Love Ringo" tee-shirt. Her eyes blur as she recalls her first sight of The Beatles: "Then it comes to you like total disbelief: These are them! You're seeing The Beatles, and they walk and breathe--the gods are really real! It's all the happiest emotions combined into one. Like...
...with the psychedelic Beatle posters. Joe Pope, founder of Strawberry Fields Forever, serves as auctioneer. Wearing a white Beatle-buttoned tee-shirt and a tuxedo, Joe holds up a "Genuine Beatle Lunchbox." Well kiddies, you remember those little metal cases with the smiling faces of Paul, John, George, and Ringo. "OK, I have 50 cents, $2, $4, $5, $6...$10.50 once, twice, sold!" The crowd snatches up other rarities: a Beatlemobile, made of paper and string, for $10; a Revere plastic model of Ringo, just like your favorite songbird or racing car, for $11. Joe picks up a hand-painted...
...shrieks a busty girl in an Apple tee-shirt. Beatle pins reading, "I Love Paul," "I Love Ringo," and "Beatles Forever," dangle off her hip-huggers. She fondles the 45 recording of "Love Me Do." "How much?...$6.00? Oh wow. Sure...