Word: dads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Slow Drag Pavageau had been the regular bassist with the George Lewis band and with Bunk Johnson before that. He had worked with George for almost 30 years, and had toured all over Europe with him. He had been the grand dad of the group, and now--at 80--he was hospitalized with stomach cancer. Drag was a delightful little man, a creole who spoke little English that was intelligible, and a lot of creole French that no one understood but him. He had grown up--like many New Orleans jazzmen--in a French speaking family, and seemed to personify...
Marietta is unusually strong for a midwestern crew, and Notre Dame and Purdue should provide the comic relief for spectators. The Fightin' Irish made it to the semi-finals of the Dad Vail Regatta last week, and have beaten such teams as Worcester Poly, Amherst, and Grand Valley State (Mich.). Wisconsin killed Purdue in an early race, mounting only a 28-strokes per minute closing sprint to finish off the Boilermakers...
...those who cannot forget a face, there is something in the curly hair, the forthright blue eyes and the squared-off jaw to bring back nostalgic twinges. The name is familiar too. When Barry Morris Goldwater Jr., 30, showed off his proud mom and dad to jubilant California conservatives, it was Goldwater père's evocation of the 1964 right-wing crusade that stimulated the cheering section. "In your hearts," said Barry Sr., "you know we're right...
...respected, are those that have a fine background, such as we have (you and I). But more important, they have lived and do live a life of which they can be proud. It has helped me immensely to listen to Mother (your conscience), pray often, and think what Dad would...
...sort of innocence, hard to convey in fiction, or by any other means, that is bound to prove embarrassing. He is also afflicted by unsophisticated surface ills: low grades, loss of a place on the football squad, undone homework, limited television. Dad once menaces him with a putter-when the boy says he would like to drop out of school and suggests, as many American young are doing, that promoting mouthwash is not what man should be all about...