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The Harley-Burly; Opening a Charity Run at the Lincoln Memorial

By Henry Allen, Washington Post Staff Writer

June 15, 1988

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Down by the Lincoln Memorial yesterday, along with about 150 Harley-Davidson motorcycles heading part or all of the way to Milwaukee for the 85th anniversary Harley Homecoming (and the benefit of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, i.e., Jerry's Kids), there were:

A Waldorf, Md., bank vice president named Corliss King and his spoke-wheeled Electra Glide; a Gaithersburg truck driver named Craig Beamer, his wife (and mother of three) Lyn, their 1984 Super Glide and his T-shirt reading "We Mutually Pledge Our Lives, Fortunes and Sacred Honor" (remember? from the…

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