Word: dads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tantalizing slow curve. He never played high-school baseball, but pitched for Army and semi-pro teams while he was at Fort Bliss, Texas in 1964. "My catcher was a fellow named John Lucchese," recalls Jerry, "whose father was an usher at Shea Stadium. He told his dad he had a pretty good pitcher, and his dad told the Mets. They sent a guy out to scout me, and he offered me $1,600 to sign. I turned him down, so the next time he offered me $1,500. Every time he talked to me, he offered me $100 less...
...know," Durgerian replied, nodding his head in understanding, "my dad is a pretty good referee." Somebody, obviously, was whistling dixie...
...Also Rises. In 1962, Darryl Zanuck, after taking charge of Fox, put his son then 27-in charge of production. Cynical studio executives snickered about the son still rising. They snicker no longer. Though his meticulously neat desk in Hollywood has a phone with a hot line to Dad in New York, his sometime critics grudgingly concede that the kid with the sulphurous temper has something-and besides he isn't a kid any more. Since the financial success of The Sound of Music- a Dick Zanuck product all the way-Fox has moved steadily from post-Cleopatra losses...
Married. Arthur Kopit, 30, playwright with a knack for titles (Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis); and Leslie Ann Garis, 24, Vassar graduate and granddaughter of the late Howard Garis, creator of the Uncle Wiggily stories; in Riverside, Conn...
...Nebraska 1888-election year, git the topicality? Grandpa composes a real rip-snortin' campaign song for Cleveland (Let's Put It Over with Grover) and every dang one of his relations accompanies him on a instrument. There's Mom (Janet Blair), Dad (Buddy Ebsen) and eight kids so durn sweet you could eat 'em up, cep'n they'd cause diabetes. Wai, 'fore you know it everybody's bein' as colorful as a cartoon, droppin' g's, singin' passels of ungrammatical songs (" 'bout you, 'bout...