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...called from the window to ask whether he wanted bacon or sausage with his eggs, or what he wanted to do with his laundry. His two grandchildren crawled in his lap, and he tried to teach young Dean Williams to call him "harabaji," which is Korean for "grandpa...
...Communist Party." Lucy's husband and co-star Desi cried: "The only thing red about this kid is her hair-and even that is not legitimate." But it was Lucy herself who explained how she could have innocently registered as a Communist; she had done it all for Grandpa...
...Grandpa, she said, was Fred Hunt, a radical and a self-appointed friend of the workingman with whom Lucille, then a struggling young movie bit-player, her mother, her brother and a sister were living in 1936. Grandpa's radicalism, she recalled, kept the household in an uproar. When the Balls hired cleaning women, Grandpa drove them away by telling them they weren't being paid enough. But Grandpa was 71 and subject to heart attacks. When he insisted that the Balls register as Communists in 1936, they all did for fear that he would pop an artery...
...husband has no children, therefore no grandchildren of his own. I think one of the reasons he married me was on account of the babies, who adore him . . . But there is one thing he can't take. He doesn't like 'Grandpa.' I guess that sort of thing has to creep up on one ... So the issue has been settled by their using the less traumatic salutation: 'Uncle...
...octogenarian crows that live far beyond the twelve-year span allotted them by the migratory bird experts. My grandfather, for instance, had a politically-minded talking crow which he chased off his farm when the bird deserted Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 and plumped for Alton B. Parker for President . . . Grandpa also claimed he found the crow as a fledgling ... in 1861 . . . That would make the old crow 43 years old at the time their friendship was fractured over politics...