>From: "Peter McWilliams" <peter@mcwilliams.com>
>Subject: Yipes!
>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 04:05:05 -0800
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>As the Beatles approch sixty, the sixties must be over.
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>NY Times
>December 30, 1999
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>George Harrison Hospitalized
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>By The Associated Press
>LONDON (AP) -- Former Beatle George Harrison was hospitalized today after an
>intruder broke into his Oxfordshire mansion and stabbed him in the chest,
>according to his spokesman.
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>Harrison, 56, and his wife, Olivia, were attacked when an intruder broke
>into the house before dawn in Henley on Thames, 25 miles west of London,
>said the spokesman, Geoff Baker.
>
>``From what we know, George was stabbed in the chest several times and
>Olivia was hit over the head,'' Baker said.
>
>Harrison was hospitalized at Royal Berkshire Hospital in nearby Reading in
>stable condition, according to a hospital spokeswoman who asked not to be
>identified. His wife was not admitted to the hospital, but was at Harrison's
>side, the spokeswoman said.
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>Thames Valley police said they were questioning a man in connection with the
>attack at the palatial Harrison estate, called Friar Park.
>
>Press Association, the British news agency, said Harrison and his wife
>grappled with the intruder, believed to be a 33-year-old Liverpool man, and
>that they apparently were able to detain him until police arrived.
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>The man was treated at a nearby hospital for undisclosed injuries, but was
>then discharged into police custody, authorities said.
>
>Baker said, as far as he knew, the man was not previously known to the
>family.
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>The Harrisons have lived at Friar Park, a former nunnery close to the center
>of historic Henley, for more than 20 years. Security at the walled estate is
>tight, and it was unclear how the intruder managed to enter the house.
>
>George Martin, the Beatles' longtime producer, speculated to SKY-TV that the
>attack was ``a burglary that went wrong.''
>
>``The house is a very sort of grand place, with a lot of grounds,'' Martin
>said. ``I know there's always people trying to get in and that kind of
>thing, but George always leads a very quiet life. ... I can't imagine anyone
>picking on George. I think they must have just picked on the house.''
>
>In 1998, Harrison disclosed that he had been battling throat cancer for more
>than a year and had surgery to remove a lump in his neck. He later had
>radiation therapy, adding to an experience he said made him think about the
>fragility of life.
>
>``It reminds you that anything can happen,'' he told the tabloid News of the
>World.
>
>Earlier that year, the three surviving Beatles -- Harrison, Ringo Starr and
>Paul McCartney -- were reunited for the first time in years at a London
>memorial service for McCartney's wife, Linda, who died of breast cancer.
>
>John Lennon, the fourth Beatle, was shot to death in New York City on Dec.
>8, 1980.
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