Word: rods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Examiner. It reads: "Mac " McKuen. If you may know of the above (spelling may vary) who worked in the Bay Area in 1933 (then aged 27) as a salesman ... pls. call Neilson & Green, S.F. 665-4386. Neilson & Green, it turns out, is a detective agency working for Pop Poet Rod McKuen, who hired the sleuths last month to track down his long-lost father. The poet, whose mother died in 1971, was born an illegitimate child in a Salvation Army hospital in 1933. Father disappeared shortly before his son debuted in 1933. "Having been born a bastard," says Rod...
TACKLES. Dennis Lick, Wisconsin, 6 ft. 4 in., 262 lbs.; and Rod Walters, Iowa, 6 ft. 4 in., 260 lbs. The pros like Lick be cause he "sustains a block," keeping holes open for his running backs and protecting his quarterback for the extra second it often takes to break a big play...
...specific, Harold--is very funny and wildly macabre; the other half-Maude--is maudlin and soppily sentimental. Harold is a nineteen-year-old morto-phile who gets his mother's attention by faking suicide, and Maude is an octogenarian whose "love of life" is on the level of Rod McKuen and Hallmark greeting cards. --Paul K. Rowe...
...cities where corporal punishment is already outlawed, the rod will stay spared. But in places where it is allowed, inveterate misbehavers will still get theirs in the end-along with a fairer shake of the hickory stick...
...Even the fishing trips must have become a dispiriting confirmation of the mortality he hated to acknowledge, a further assault on the pride he took in past feats of skill and stamina. In 1957 he had been named national amateur fishing champion for catching a 712-lb. tuna with rod and reel, the largest ever landed by rod in Spanish waters. He also boasted of shooting 8,420 partridges in one year...