Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mayor O'Dwyer, who desperately wanted to keep U.N. in New York, hurriedly got in touch with a potent member of his U.N. site committee, young Nelson Rockefeller, just in by plane from Mexico. Nelson immediately got in touch with his dad, John D. Jr. John D. got out his checkbook...
More than once the miseries of Cartoonist Al Capp's (Li'l Abner) mythical, snowbound Slobs, "dropping dad from all kinds starwation," have found not too exaggerated counterparts in reality. In eastern Europe there were at least two genuine foreign envoys in straits almost as dire as the Slobbovian Ambassador...
Education of a Tramp. After the fourth grade in Pueblo, Colo., Damon Runyon's schooling ended, and his education began. His tutors (like "Our Old Man," as he later called his dad) were tramp printers who could quote the Bible, Shakespeare and Bob Ingersoll with equal conviction. From them he learned, among other priceless lessons, to be a good listener...
Hearst to Greene: "I think the drawing of Dick and His Dad is amazingly good. It is perfectly splendid. I am afraid, however, that similar beginning and conclusion of each page might give a deadly sameness to the series. . . . Perhaps we could get the dream idea over by having only the conclusion on each page. I mean, do not show the boy going to sleep every time and then show him waking up, but let the waking up come as a termination to each page. . . . Can you develop anything out of the idea of having Dick...
...father but by a special committee (among the members: CBS Vice President Edward R. Murrow, Barnard's Dean Virginia Gildersleeve). Duggan pere attended the meetings as secretary, was chosen to notify his successor. Larry was afraid his father had railroaded his appointment. Said he: "Dad, I'd rather hear about it from someone else...