Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Just to set the record straight regarding Reader Smith Freeman's letter [Jan. 12] it was my dad, the late James W. ("Jim") Curran, founder, publisher and editor of the Star, who put up and backed a $100 offer for 25 years (1925-50) to anyone who could establish "to the satisfaction of the editor" that a wolf had attacked a human being. The offer was limited to the Algoma District because "it would not be convenient for us to travel outside the confines of this large district...
...dad who coined the phrase later attributed to the legendary Algoma prospector Old Sam Martin: "Any man who sez he's been et by a wolf is a liar...
...inveterate bush traveler himself, dad went out into the northern hinterlands to cut up the fearful tales about the ravages of "timber wolves that would tear a man to pieces" for the fantastic fabrications that they were, and to gather the material for wolf stories that made this newspaper famous and for his later book Wolves Don't Bite, now out of print...
...shared anxieties of state soon give him a case of galloping paranoia, and as the President's analyst comes unglued, the movie swings off on a broad, bawdy, satirical spoof of such U.S. cult objects as secret-agentry, hippiedom, and the supposedly happy New Jersey household where Dad has his "car gun" and his "house gun," Mom takes karate lessons, and Sonny taps the family phone with his Junior...
Linda, shamelessly swiping two of her dad's oldest gags, reports that "he is out of town so much it's a full-time job for us to keep moving the pins on the map. I was twelve before I learned that he wasn't an airline pilot." Nevertheless, Hope has never missed a crucial or ceremonial family occasion-except for Christmas, which the Hopes save for New Year's Day. And besides, what the children and Dolores share with Bob they refuse to measure in geographical distances...