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...Ronald W. Reagan awards--first place, for pushing Mom, Apple Pie and Flag in a Harvard Context, to a Currier House hopeful who is running on the motto. "For Skill, For Experience, For Currier." Second place, for pushing Our Boys In Uniform in a Harvard Context, to the Leverett House candidate whose face fills in for Uncle Sam in a remake of the famous World War II "I Want You" recruiting poster. This candidate also snags the Richard M. Nixon Zealous Reelection Campaign Effort Award. His poster, according to a note on the bottom, is "paid for by the Leverett...
...sings It's Alright. Next Tuesday the musicians will convene in New York for a nationally syndicated "family birthday celebration" radio broadcast in honor of John and Sean, who were both born on Oct. 9. Does his first recording mean the younger Lennon plans to follow in Mom's and Dad's musical foot steps? "It seems kind of inevitable," admits Yoko. "Then again I'm prepared for the possibility that he'll want to be a baseball player...
...agent over her head to put him in his place. Jones says she could have lifted Actor Bogdan Kominowski on her own, but the studio insisted that supporting wires be attached to him as a safety measure. Declared Jones: "My mother always warned me about picking up men." Obviously, Mom didn't know Grace could manage it without letting them fall...
...popular, and distorted, view, says Klein, Mom is either asexual and saintly or a devouring harridan who lives vicariously through her son and whose traumatizing influence is responsible for "everything that goes wrong, from failure in school to homosexuality." Such skewed portraits deny the richness and the intensity of the connection. "Indeed," says Klein, "the tie is stronger than that between father and son and father and daughter. Fathers can mitigate or reinforce a mother's views, but she is the life-giver and, even in today's changing society, still the chief nurturing figure in the family...
...disclosure last week that her parents were worth nearly $4 million was news even to Laura Zaccaro, 18. "Mom," she asked Geraldine Ferraro, "why do we always have to buy at sales?" The question was meant as a joke. Still, the mass of financial data released on the family's finances showed that the couple are indeed wealthy in terms of their varied real estate holdings, but far less so in cash income. Said Ferraro: "We're not flashy. We buy property and we maintain it, and it appreciates. That's what America is all about...