Word: kiddingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Typical junior high school star, schoolgirl scholar-athlete; but she always dreamed about running a marathon. (I know--weird dream). So then she comes to Harvard and goes to see the Big One--the Boston Marathon--her freshman year. She tells me. "I was bitten by the bug." Crazy kid decided she had to run the Boston Marathon...
...last Monday she runs 18 miles, the most she'd ever run; and then she goes out to Lowell Sunday. She needs a 3:30.00 to qualify for the Boston race (yes, that's hours). So what does she do? The nervy kid runs a 3:11.30, finishes as the first woman, qualifies--the whole shot, and she'd never run more than 18 miles before the race...
...long absent and somewhat alienated daughter (Barbara Andres) arrives with her current lover, a divorced dentist (Stan Lachow), and, more important, the dentist's 13-year-old son Billy (Mark Bendo). Billy is parked with the Thayers for a few weeks, and Norman takes a shine to the kid. He teaches him how to fish, and Billy, a bit of a smartass, brushes up Norman's archaic lingo with such modernisms as "suckface" for "to kiss." A brush with death further restores Norman's zest for life and schools Ethel in the sweet scary brevity...
...When that flag was going up over the American embassy today, I couldn't help but think back on a scared 21-year-old kid waiting for hours to get into the U.S. consulate in Shanghai in 1947 just so he could talk to a Third Secretary about a visa for America. Someone would have had to be crazy to think that I'd be here now." So said Treasury Secretary W. (for Werner) Michael Blumenthal just after the U.S. embassy opened in Peking last week amid the popping of Chinese firecrackers and the fizz of Coca-Cola...
...graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy, Cephas taught history at the Choate-Rosemary Hall School in 1975. "Prep schools can turn a bright, energetic kid around and send him flying in the direction of further education and achievement," he said...