Word: dads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a TV appearance, Nevada's Democratic Governor Grant Sawyer, 47, got a letter from a nine-year-old constituent: "I saw you on TV last night for the first time. My Dad says not to worry. You are a lot smarter than you look." Last week a ten-year-old critic penned the following: "I'm writing to tell you that I'm going to be Governor some day. My father says I should finish grade school first, because I need an eighth-grade education to be as smart as you." Shrugged Sawyer: "A left-handed...
...wonder if these servicemen who are so quick to accuse the class of '66 of cowardice are being viewed objectively. Unfurling these soldier-patriots from the flag for a minute, I wonder how many enlisted to find adventure, to wear a uniform, to get away from Mom and Dad, to see the world, to become a man, etc., and then were caught when Viet Nam exploded into a major action. So knock off the chauvinism, servicemen. You're not fighting in Viet Nam "so college kids can go to school." You're fighting either because you have...
...forthcoming book, The Pleasure of His Company (Harper & Row), now being serialized by McCall's, Fay recalls some other revealing Kennedyisms. "When the war is over and you are out there in sunny California," Kennedy told San Franciscan Fay in 1945, "I'll be back here with Dad trying to parlay a lost PT boat and a bad back into a political advantage." The next year, "Big Joe," as J.F.K. sometimes called his father, had his way, and Jack was running for Congress in Boston...
...balance ups with downs, Doris plays mermaid for her salty dad, Arthur Godfrey, who makes his painless and pointless film debut as the skipper of a glass bottom boat for sea-sighters. At one point Godfrey takes up his ukulele to strum a Doris Day hit tune of yore. The old pro may believe that reminiscing is as good a way as any to buoy up spirits aboard a doomed ship...
...book sold 400,000 copies. The net result is that my son has spent two years on safari in Africa and skiing in Austria, while I've been working my fingers to the bone. The least he might do is to stop calling me from Austria, collect." O.K., Dad, but how far do you expect a guy to stretch...