Word: boys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cleveland's Mayor Dennis Kucinich seems to lend credence to the saying "Never send a boy to do a man's job" [Dec. 25]. Let's hope Santa Claus provided him with enough toys and games so he can amuse himself while the professionals attempt to straighten out the mess. Edward F. Greene Keene...
...Gacy a decade ago. Living there with his first wife and two children, he managed three Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. He was chaplain in the Jaycees and even campaigned for the presidency of the organization. Then in 1968 he was convicted of sodomy with a 16-year-old boy and sentenced to ten years in prison. His wife divorced him, but he was a model citizen in prison and won parole after 18 months...
Gacy moved on to Chicago and although he was arrested for another sexual offense in 1971, the charges were dropped after the boy failed to appear in court. A year later Gacy remarried. "He swept me off my feet," said his second wife. But Gacy had a bad temper and sometimes broke up furniture in their home. In 1976 the couple were divorced...
...band struck up Life Begins at 60, and the citizens of Hamburg shouted birthday greetings to the local boy who made good. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt was especially pleased with his birthday loot: a chess set with porcelain figures from French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and front-page replicas of 20 German newspapers dated Dec. 23, 1918, the date of his birth. Before the day was out, the Chancellor attended four bashes and pumped 3,000 hands. "I'll certainly have to go to the doctor," said Schmidt. "Some people put the strength...
...laughter. Among the merriest: Stop Trying to Cheer Me Up! by Frank Modell. One of the most versatile of The New Yorker's cartoonists, Modell is equally at home with animal gags (Pan using a unicorn horn for a corkscrew) and domestic explosions (father to a small boy who has nailed his Christmas stocking upside down: "You call that hung by the chimney with care?"). The Book of Terns by Peter Delacorte and Michael C. Witte is something else again. Every conceivable pun on the bird-word tern is illustrated, from tern of the screw to Comintern. A single...