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...week) his fan clubs, his wardrobes (450 outfits, including a set of tails and a gorilla suit), his white Corvette, his travels around the world with accommodations in the best hotels. But he has earned them all: he understands 500 words, can count his fingers, play the piano, spank himself, do cartwheels, raise his arms when he wants to be taken to the bathroom, and perform numerous other monkeyshines, including raising TV ratings. He is also the only TV personality on earth who has been denounced in the House of Commons ("an insult to the Queen"), attacked in Izvestia...
...Krauss's first report began on a confident note: "There really isn't much to it. Running a house and taking care of four children takes about the same amount of stamina and nervous energy as jerking sodas." When children get out of bounds, Krauss counseled readers, spank them. (With their parents' consent, he did.) A few things went awry, e.g., little Melina sprayed milk over the windows Krauss had just washed, but he fed the family, bathed the baby, made the beds, did laundry and read fairy tales to the children. Reported Mrs. Dion by phone...
Superintendent Nelms conceded that Louis was "not a bad boy." But he indicated that he saw nothing wrong with using a strap, and he certainly was a man with a conscience. "I spank my own children," said he, "and I'm somewhat ashamed the next morning when [the buttocks] turn blue." Cried Board Chairman George Whitman Jr.: "The state of Georgia has a law abolishing corporal punishment in prisons and on chain gangs. Do you think that this law, applying to hardened criminals, should apply to a partially blind twelve-year-old boy?" Answered Nelms: "The board has never...
When Rocky first decided to take up prizefighting, his father said, "Why not? You're strong enough. Try." But his mother used to spank him for fighting, and still disapproves. She never watches his fights, or hears them on the radio. Instead, she lights a candle to St. Anthony and then talks with a neighbor, "just to get it out of my mind. But once in a while we look at the clock and I pray-like in my mind. I pray neither of them gets hurt. After all, the other boy has a mother, too; he is human...
...tear gas stopped them. Then the five were marched to the prison gymnasium, were stripped, examined by a physician and shackled over the "grey mare," a wooden gym horse. As the doctor stood by, the warden himself and guards took turns walloping the five where mother used to spank. Their lash was a leather strap 6 inches wide and 2%½ feet long...