Word: dad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a movie theater in Angier, N.C. (pop. 1,028) scheduled a sex picture called Mom and Dad ("Bold! Shocking! The Secrets of Sensible Sex"), it was overrun by an unmanageable crowd. Firemen had to wet down the crowd with a hose before the picture could be shown to an all-male audience...
...turkeys at Thanksgiving. The Conway home is equipped with restaurant-size utensils, and when the kids were younger, the staggering meals were staggered: pre-school-age kids ate dinner in the kitchen at 6; elementary-school-agers in the breakfast room at 6:30, and the big kids with dad and mother in the dining room at 7 (Mrs. Conway died last August...
Touchdowns by Jerry. Last week, while one brother was playing at Williams and another at Yale, young Jerry was having a field day. Dad and seven other Conways (including Tommy) watched him break loose on a 50-yard touchdown run against Nichols School. That wasn't all: three times more he carried the ball across the goal line, as University School won, 32-0. A long-jointed broken field runner who used his blockers well, Jerry has scored 17 touchdowns this season, to lead all of the Cleveland area schoolboys. In the family, he is regarded as the best...
Says Jerry: "Dad doesn't insist we all must be world beaters. The only thing he lays on the line without any ifs is we've got to play hard. And he lets us know that if our marks fall we're out of football. None of us could stand that...
With his father at his bedside, Mike was winning his fight for life. He also won another fight, important to an eleven-year-old-he was still dry-eyed as he said: "Dad, it's going to be awful lonesome...