Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theater. But he had the promise of a law job at $15 a week. Says he: "If they had offered me $20, I would have forgotten all about the stage. But they didn't. So I went to my Uncle Arthur and said: 'Forget that promise to Dad. I want to go into show business.' " Arthur gave him a job as an assistant stage manager at $20 a week...
...Worried." Some of his competitors got up at 6 a.m. to get in some practice on the fast cork rings out by the boardwalk. Larry was used to getting up early: his dad is a brakeman on the Norfolk & Western. He didn't know his rivals' names, and he didn't bother to find out: he addressed them by the cities pinned on their sweaters, Chicago, Monongahela, Steubenville. Larry was one of the smallest of the lot, but unlike the older competitors he did not worry about losing; he just thought about how to win. Said...
Take it Easy; Take it Off. Reporters fought grimly for exclusive "angles." Hearst's New York Mirror revealed that Satira's father, "a law-abiding apothecary," had "blown the contents of his piggy bank" to go to her aid. "Take it easy on my Dad," she told the Mirror. "He's never been outside Toledo. . . . Please buy him a beer." In court she exposed her back ("an official striptease," said one leering account) to show the judge and photographers her bruises...
...Backs Dad's Horse...
...Dad Studied at University...