Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even a fun-house mirror image of reality. She is a good-looking, brown-haired woman (though the hair color varies according to whim) who is, if not gaunt, at any rate acceptably trim at 5 ft. 2 in. and 127 Ibs. Is it a surprise that her daughter Betsy, 30, and her sons Andrew, 28, and Matthew, 25, have lost their baby teeth? And that her husband is not a football-stupefied turnip but rather an articulate, quick-minded fellow? Bill Bombeck retired in 1978 after a successful career as a school administrator, and now manages their income...
...dresser, was immediately repossessed, and her half sister went off to live with her natural mother. Erma and her mother, 25-year-old Erma Fiste, shared a bedroom in her grandmother's house, and each day Mother Erma would get up at 5 a.m., fix breakfast for her daughter, see that she was dressed for school, and then leave in time to work the 7 a.m. shift at the Leland Electric factory. An adult observer would have seen a spunky young widow doing her best...
...When her daughter showed signs of shyness and loneliness, Mother Erma signed her up for tap-dancing lessons as therapy, then took her to an audition for a Kiddie Revue at a local radio station. Erma stayed on the program for nearly eight years, tap dancing and singing. "She was quite a little hoofer," says her mother, who still has Erma's signed song sheets for On the Good Ship Lollipop and I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Myself a Letter. Bombeck says it is obvious that the wrong Erma broke into show biz. When...
...wives and Prince William's wardrobe, her best work pokes giggles into the generation gap. Climbing three flights of stairs to inspect her 23-year-old son's first apartment left her feeling "like Jane Fonda's mother in Barefoot in the Park." Her teen-age daughter is fond of making over Mother: "Mom, lemme mayo your hair." And a saccharine greeting card, "To a Special Daughter," prompted Dykstra to write: "It's their knack for leaving razors face up in the shower that makes them special...
...unsettled estate-and the frozen assets-was that of Mario and Elsa Rios, a Los Angeles couple who made a fortune in real estate. In 1978, after Elsa's ten-year-old daughter by a previous marriage accidentally shot herself, the disconsolate couple sought to have another child. Unable to conceive by natural means, they turned, in 1981, to Melbourne's pioneering IVF program. Because Rios, then 54, was infertile, doctors used sperm from an anonymous donor to fertilize a number of eggs taken from his 37-year-old wife. Several were implanted, and two spares were frozen...