Local NewsMarch 4, 2014

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In 1966, John Lennon made a comment to British media that would later spark a controversy in America.

It was only after the American press got hold of his words about five months after Lennon first said, "Bigger than Jesus" that brought a semi-official end to the giddy phenomenon known as Beatlemania.

In their original context, Lennon's remarks were meant not as a boast, but a commentary on what he viewed as the waning importance of religion. "Christianity will go," Lennon said. "It will vanish and shrink. We're more popular than Jesus now."

He offered this as his apology: "I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ or anti-religion. I was not saying we are greater or better. I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I'm sorry I said it, really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. From what I've read, or observed, Christianity just seems to be shrinking, to be losing contact."

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In 1995, the larger-than-life comedic star John Candy died of a heart attack. He was 43. He died while filming "Wagons East." Candy played a grizzled alcoholic wagon master by the name of James Harlow, who a group of misfit settlers hire to lead them back to their hometown in the East. Candy's death was before filming ended and in order to finish the film director Peter Merkle used a stand-in, filmed from a distance, and special effects.

Another of Candy's films, "Canadian Bacon" was also released after his death.

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Hardihood

Definition No. 1 - Boldness or daring; courage.

Definition No. 2 - A term used for the process of drying paint on automobiles.

Cryptogram

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Answers

Jocose - Given to or characterized by joking; jesting; humorous; playful.

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"Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them." - Lemony Snicket

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