Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world of pop music-which is bluesy and sometimes boozy, rocking and often shocking-Singer Pat Boone, 24, stands out as an exemplary type. While earning a reported $750,000 a year, he lives modestly in suburban Teaneck, NJ. with the wife he married at 19 and their four daughters. While recording such jukebox hits as Lone Letters in the Sand and Friendly Persuasion, he attended Columbia University (majoring in speech) and last June graduated magna cum laude. Though a Tennessee-raised descendant of rugged Daniel Boone, he does not drink, smoke or cuss. On occasion he gives guest sermons...
Last summer, while shooting his third movie (Mardi Gras) in Hollywood, Pat wrote a sun-drenched book: 'Twixt Twelve and Twenty (Prentice-Hall; $2.95). By last week its call for healthy-mindedness among "my friends out there in Teen-age Land" was influencing so many of them (or their Lolita-stunned parents) that the book had become a major bestseller...
Milk & Jam. "I didn't become a good Christian overnight," Pat advises. "In fact, I got my last spanking when I was 17." It was administered by strong-willed Mama Boone with her ever-ready sewing-machine belt, "both of us leaning over the bathtub." For this walloping and many before, Pat is grateful: "We all thought Mama the greatest, and I tell her now that she can spank me any time she likes...
Mama began taking Pat to church when he was six weeks old, later gave him a daily cross: milking the family cow. At first, chasing Rosemary across plusher neighbors' lawns was an excruciating embarrassment. But Pat soon learned "that people were not as interested in what I had or what I wore as in what I was . . . It healed me of a lot of insecurity to find out that if my cow gave people a laugh, I was doing them a favor...
...help restless kids enjoy the present ("Jam Today"), Pat soberly urges them to act their ages. They can become "useful, happy, well-adjusted individuals," he says, if they make out a check list of "maturity" goals that he uses himself. Its divisions: Spiritual (follow the Bible, "the best, truest-the only"); Social (follow the Golden Rule, or "treat Joe the way you'd like him to treat you"); Mental ("New ideas and theories, new inventions, new concepts, new knowledge itself, come from thinkers. You might think about that for a while"); Physical ("I can remember that Daddy always smelled...