Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...layer of laughter, on a grim foundation, was an uninhibited, spontaneous measure of the extent to which Alateens learn to live with their special set of problems. They share advice on such crises as what to tell a date who shows up when Dad has been taken drunk in the living room. Answer: explain later to the date that father is an alcoholic and a sick person. Through discussions, lectures and films, they explore the broader problem of alcoholism. But their study is not aimed at helping them to help a drinking parent to reform or even find...
...Dad. Now 50, Hoffman circles the earth carrying six shirts, five pairs of eyeglasses and 290 lbs. of old letters, news clips, books. Also in his luggage: pad after pad of his "Handy-Dandy Little Giant Nervous Breakdown Avoider," a mail-answering form full of prefab messages such as "Congratulations," "Get well soon," "Let's both forget it," and "You paid me the highest compliment a woman ever paid a man, but I am not worthy of your love." That last item is frequently checked, for Hoffman is fond of women, including girls of all wages. His vision being...
...Columnist Walter Winchell reports that Zeckendorf and his son were riding through Manhattan when William Jr. pointed to a skyscraper and said, "Dad, I hear that building can be bought for $50 million." "Yes," replied Zeckendorf, "but they want $50,000 cash...
...worth (insured) of his jewels. In 1919 he set up a commercial-loan company, was astounded when a bank offered him a $100,000 line of credit. He chalked it up to the favorable impression he had made on the banks' officers-until he learned that good old dad had secretly guaranteed...
Arthur L. Kopit '59, author of the play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Felling So Sad, flies by jet from Paris to the United States today and will arrive in Cambridge by Thursday, in time to see the reopening of his play...