Word: dad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...square in 3-D (cube that is) diggin' Pete Candoli blowing clarinet on Hey, Bellboy! platter [July 27] review? Tha's a trumpet, Dad...
...boys, each of whom was quartered in a different home. As soon as the youngsters met, they hugged each other, and the oldest turned, beaming at Floyd, and said: "I've been praying that somebody would adopt us all. You're gonna make a swell dad." Most of the difficulties which the Floyds had anticipated melted away. American Airlines obligingly shipped all five children to California on passes. The Floyds managed a bigger house. The children took to them from the beginning...
...middle-aged couple tried to avoid publicity about their new family. But last week they proudly exhibited them on a Chicago television show, and were rewarded once again when Nellie, now 17 and pretty, said: "We think the most important thing about all this is how wonderful Mother and Dad have been in giving us normal lives...
...grinding political axes of any kind. Artless, candid, at times naive, he pictures a Stalin who dotes on Balzac novels, Turkish coffee and the color orange (he even has his watering cans painted that color), who hauls out pictures of his young son as fast as any bourgeois dad, warbles a passable tenor, and plays a sharp game of gorodki (a Russian mixture of shuffleboard and ninepins). Budu's Stalin is more human than the headlines he makes, but he is no more lovable than any other python in repose...
...original, The Clown consists mostly of variations on one situation: a brave little boy keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of his dad's continual boozing and crapshooting. This he accomplishes largely by saying "Aw, gee" and looking forlornly at the camera. As in the original version, the father dies at the fadeout-in this case, after having made good on a television show...