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Informed of this opinion, Geller raises his eyebrows. He continues to sit in the dark, an attending slave to the station or the music, it isn't clear which. His arms are folded across his chest, his shock of gray hair stands up off his scalp, his lower lip is rolled out. "So?" he asks finally. Another long pause. "Does it mean he wants me to drop dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Giving Music | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

...speak after you've settled down. You're practically asleep when he starts; his voice has a familiar, paternal tone to it. You find it so relaxing you don't even notice the huge tufts of hair he's subtly cut out. As he talks you feel your scalp bleed, but it's all right. Everything's, somehow, strangely familiar...

Author: By Daniel Vilmure, | Title: The Shepard Zone | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...listings of evening entertainment. Buy tickets for big concerts and nightclub bands at Out of Town News, Strawberry Records, Ticketron or the box offices. If it's concert tickets you want, make sure you go early, because the high-school kids always seem to eat them up quickly and scalp them at a huge profit to saps who didn't wait in line for seats...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Entertainment is Up When the Lights are Down | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...began as a minor traffic violation and ended with the fatal shooting of a police officer, a woman's murder and the discovery of a full female scalp in a stolen car. Alex Mengel, 30, a Guyanese-born tool-and-die maker, was returning home from a weekend of target shooting in the Catskill Mountains when a Westchester County, N.Y., police officer made the mistake of pulling him over. Noting spent shotgun shells in Mengel's car, the officer radioed for assistance. But before help could come, Mengel allegedly killed him with a single bullet to the head and fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Twisted Trail | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...slain, authorities caught up with Mengel in Toronto, where he was arrested after crashing the car into a wall in a final attempt to escape. Inside, they found a gruesome clue to how Mengel may have crossed the border despite the bulletins for his arrest. A woman's scalp, presumably Capone's, was found in the car. They speculate that Mengel killed Capone and disguised himself as a woman, using her hair as a wig. At week's end police found Capone's body under a pile of stones in a wooded Catskills area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crime: A Twisted Trail | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

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