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FEBRUARY/MARCH 2017

USUAL SUSPECTS John Seiz, of Highland Heights, OH, caught his mother, Mary, sister Phyllis, father, Edwin, and brother George in a moment of detection during a game of Clue in 1960.

HOW WE ROLLED

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE

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A tribute to the days of slippery shoes and three-holed balls.

Stories of romance put the sweet in sweethearts.

Make-believe fortunes were won and lost—and legendary family wars waged— on cardboard combat zones.

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SPOTLIGHT

12 TIME CAPSULE

Looking back on 1974.

13 TRIVIAL PURSUITS

A quiz on a banner year in film.

14 LOOK WHAT WE FOUND Lovable Valentine’s gifts.

16 CLOSE ENCOUNTER

His many experiences include working for President Carter.

18 FLASH FORWARD

Funny women, then and now; a song revisited; a movie gem.

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Coming of age with Laura Ingalls Wilder.

26 OUR HEROES

Learning from the best— his dad.

28 AT WORK

She developed a career in portrait photography.

RETRO REPLAY

BACK IN TIME

60 PICTURES FROM THE PAST

Bundled up for adventure.

62 EMBARRASSING MOMENTS 64 FAMILY TREE

Naming patterns can be clues to finding our ancestors.

66 MOTORING MEMORIES Mom didn’t know her car was a hot rod.

74 LASTING IMPRESSION

A window on the Berlin Wall.

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Editor’s Note Tell Us Your Story!

Name That Car Crossword Puzzle Contributor Guidelines, Answers, Find Hattie’s Hatpin

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How “Rock Around the Clock” rocked the charts—three times.

In the early ’60s, my friend and I would ride the L to visit the WLS radio studios.

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54 GODFATHER II 56 MUSIC

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She had her car in a tight spot.

OUR LIVES

22 GROWING UP

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ON THE COVER Let’s roll! Join us at the bowling alley, where everyone wants a shot at a turkey. Page 32.

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Family Tree Searching for a long-lost relative? We’ve gathered genealogy tips you can use on your hunt.

Close Encounter Those brushes with stardom make for interesting stories, so we’ll share some of the best.

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SPOTLIGHT

Hammerin’ Hank Sets the record Hall of Famer and Atlanta Braves outfielder Hank Aaron (44) broke Babe Ruth’s 1935 record by hitting his 715th home run on April 8, 1974.

He went on to hit another 40, this one, No. 733, against the Cincinnati Reds.

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he year made it into the record books for two sports legends (see below). Memorable events such as the kidnapping of a publishing heiress, a long impeachment process and the pardoning of a former president unfolded on the front pages of newspapers and on the evening news. Hollywood provided a stellar list of movies (see Trivial Pursuits, opposite). Dancers, discoveries, songs and books filled out the rest of the year. Check out 1974’s highs and lows.

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FEB. 4: The radical Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patricia “Patty” Hearst, 19, granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst.

MARCH 4: People magazine debuted, featuring Mia Farrow as Daisy Buchanan from The Great Gatsby on the cover.

MARCH 29: Well diggers in Xian, China, discovered the tomb of the first Qin dynasty emperor, along with nearly 8,000 terra-cotta warriors standing guard.

APRIL 2: The Sting swept the Oscars with seven, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Costume Design and Best Screenplay.

APRIL 5: Stephen King, 26, launched his prolific writing career with his debut novel, Carrie,

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introducing a new brand of horror to America.

APRIL 8: Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run, breaking the record Babe Ruth set in 1935.

MAY 9: The Nixon impeachment hearings began. President Richard M. Nixon resigned on Aug. 9 and received a “full, free and absolute pardon” on Sept. 8 from his successor, President Gerald R. Ford.

JUNE 22: The Skydeck on the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower in Chicago, now the Willis Tower, opened, providing views of four states on a clear day: Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana.

JUNE 26: The first UPC scanner was installed in a Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product scanned was a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum.

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JUNE 29: Mikhail Baryshnikov (above) defected from Russia to Canada and joined the American Ballet Theatre.

AUG. 7: French highwire artist Philippe Petit, 24, walked a tightrope between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City.

SEPT. 12: Black students boarded buses in Roxbury, Massachusetts, and traded places with their white counterparts at South Boston High School under a federal court order to integrate Boston schools.

OCT. 30: The Rumble in the Jungle, fought in Kinshasa, Zaire, pitted Muhammad Ali, 32, against George Foreman, 25. Ali reclaimed the heavyweight boxing championship in the eighth round. Foreman tired early and by the final round looked like what one New York Times reporter described as “a bee harassing a bear.”

NOV. 24: The bones of Lucy, a 3.2 million-yearold hominid, were found on a dig in Ethiopia.

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1974 TOP OF THE CHARTS

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SONGS 1. “THE WAY WE WERE,” Barbra Streisand 2. “SEASONS IN THE SUN,” Terry Jacks 3. “LOVE’S THEME,” Love Unlimited Orchestra 4. “COME AND GET YOUR LOVE,” Redbone 5. “DANCING MACHINE,” The Jackson 5 6. “THE LOCO-MOTION,” Grand Funk Railroad 7. “TSOP (THE SOUND OF PHILADELPHIA),” MFSB 8. “THE STREAK,” Ray Stevens 9. “BENNIE AND THE JETS,” Elton John 10. “ONE HELL OF A WOMAN,” Mac Davis

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$ 119.5 $ 116 $ 86.3 $ 79.7 $ 57.3 $ 39.5 $ 30.86 $ 25 $ 21 $ 20.45

BOOKS (Top sellers in fiction) 1. CENTENNIAL James A. Michener 2. WATERSHIP DOWN Richard Adams 3. JAWS Peter Benchley 4. TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPYJohn le Carre 5. SOMETHING HAPPENED Joseph Heller 6. THE DOGS OF WAR Frederick Forsyth 7. THE PIRATE Harold Robbins 8. I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME Margaret Craven 9. THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION Nicholas Meyer 10. THE FAN CLUB Irving Wallace

BLAZING SADDLES THE TOWERING INFERNO YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN EARTHQUAKE THE GODFATHER: PART II BENJI THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE THUNDERBOLT AND LIGHTFOOT THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN THE GROOVE TUBE

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Coppola wrote and directed this thriller featuring Gene Hackman (pictured above) and a haunting score by David Shire, who was Coppola’s brother-in-law.

This black-and-white satire starred Gene Wilder, who was nominated with Mel Brooks for an adapted screenplay Oscar.

Another Mel Brooks satire featured Cleavon Little as the sheriff of Rock Ridge.

This mystery was director Roman Polanski’s tribute to old-style detective stories.

Steven Spielberg made his feature film debut with this Goldie Hawn comedy-drama.

Martin Scorsese directed this film, for which Ellen Burstyn won the Best Actress Oscar.

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3 4 5 6 GOLD BOND The Man with the Golden Gun, the ninth Bond flick, starred Christopher Lee (left) as hit man Scaramanga and Roger Moore as Bond.

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A LOT OF LIVING IN 39 YEARS Dauntless in his pursuit of passion, one man moves beyond his past.

BY BILL G. KING • BIRMINGHAM, AL

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PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER appointed Bill uring my early years in Huntsville, to the United States Advisory Commission Alabama, I was part of a poor on Intergovernmental Relations in 1978. family. We lived in a boardinghouse at the Dallas Cotton Mill Village. in the Alabama House of Representatives and I begged for pennies on the the Alabama Senate. It was there that I was streets. At the age of 11, unable to live with chosen to direct Jimmy Carter’s successful my stepfather, I moved in with a bootlegger U.S. presidential campaign in Alabama. named Kathrin until I was 17. She treated me Although I enjoyed business and politics, like a mother, and I loved her for it.

I also pursued other more I lived many lives after that, MEMORABLE physical activities such as including four years in the Air MOMENTS skydiving, bungee jumping, Force, where I was honored scuba diving, paraplane flying with three awards. I worked and motorcycle racing. my way through Tennessee Sitting on that pony 39 years Technological University earlier (left), I would never in Cookeville, Tennessee, have believed that I would one laying sewer lines full time day stand in the Oval Office of on campus to pay my college the White House and receive a expenses before getting my national appointment from the bachelor’s degree. president of the United States.

After college I went into My experience is proof that a real estate, where I developed, poor beginning should never be owned and operated 16 hotels/ an excuse to slow you down. motels and 11 apartment complexes. In addition to my business activities and because of my relationships in the Share your stories with us at BILL WAS 5 in 1939 when business community, I became FACEBOOK.COM/ his mom borrowed a dime to get this picture taken.

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OUR LIVES Popcorn for Pioneers hen I was 7, my entire family would sit around the television in our Napa, CA, home and watch the kind, hardworking Ingalls family iron out issues we all encounter at times. My mom always made popcorn in my grandfather’s battered old stained pot and had me dress up like a pioneer girl. It was the best! What wasn’t so great? Having to wear a gigantic bonnet on my head every week. No one else was tortured with a bonnet and braids fastened with rubber bands instead of ponytail holders—just me.

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COURAGE. The Ingallses journey from one unsettled location to the next. The plucky family survives droughts, crop failures, locusts, blizzards and even a prairie fire, but they keep trudging forward, certain that better times are ahead. (Luckily, Pa’s fiddle can lift their spirits.)

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FAMILY TOGETHERNESS. Ma and Pa are firm but loving parents, yet it’s the bond among sisters that enthralls us. Spunky Laura, serious Mary, and sweet younger siblings Grace and Carrie play together, help with chores, protect each other against bullies and share the occasional bag of ribbon candy.

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Harrisburg transferred him back to Chambersburg in 1935. But Harry didn’t feel abandoned. He remembers his father fondly. “He was my guide in life,” Harry says.

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EMILY’S TRIPOD, made of wood and metal, was sturdy enough to accommodate large cameras.

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TIME LINE 1888—Inventor George Eastman coins the word “Kodak,” introduces the Kodak box camera with its self-contained roll of film, and launches what would become an industry standard.

1892—The business, started in 1880, is now known as the Eastman Kodak Co. 1900—Kodak launches the Brownie camera.

It sells for $1; film is 15 cents a roll.

1935—Kodachrome becomes the first color film available for hobbyists.

photos for Western Electric, a part of the Bell System, she met my dad.

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My family still has many of the early color photos. Each image took hours to develop. The color in these early prints appeared to blend together and the contrast was not as sharp as in today’s photographs.

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LOU (SECOND FROM LEFT) and his teammates receive an award from the Massachusetts Bowling Association for setting a one-game scoring record in 2005.

KING OF THE

HILL Bowling alleys in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where I grew up, used either candlepins or duckpins.

THE SCORE SHEET shows how the team reached its total pin count of 1,103.

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It wasn’t until 1954, when I was assigned to Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, that I was introduced to tenpins. The balls were three times the size and weight of duckpin balls. But I got hooked. I joined many leagues and practiced every day. I even made the base’s bowling team.

After I was discharged in 1958, I came home to find several new tenpin bowling alleys in Lawrence and the surrounding

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area. Within two years, a TV station in Boston was broadcasting a weekly show from Sammy White’s Brighton Bowl, which was owned by the former Red Sox catcher. Alleys across the state held qualifying rounds—whoever had the highest score over five games won $200.

I won the qualifying round to make it to my first week of TV competition in December 1959. On the show, the bowler who scored the most pins after three games was declared the winner and returned the next week to defend the title of King of the Hill. I won my first week and the next four weeks. I qualified for the show a few times after that but lost the TV competitions.

In 1966, the 1,500 members of the Merrimack Valley Bowling Association elected me their bowler of the year. I got a trophy, a beautiful blue velvet cape, and a crown decorated with red and blue stones. This is a part of my life I will always cherish.

I continue to bowl to this day, but not in competition—only for pleasure.

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BY LOUIS PALAZZO SALEM, NH

FANCY FOOTWORK My brother Larry left the Druid Lanes Bowling Center in Martinsville, VA, still wearing his borrowed bowling shoes. On Monday morning, he looked at the red and green shoes with a yellow 9 on the heel and decided to wear them to school, declaring them more comfortable than the hand-me-down brogans he’d left at the alley. Within a few weeks, kids all over the school were wearing bowling shoes. It was the biggest fad of Drewry Mason High School in 1967. CARL PALM ER • UNIVERSIT Y PLACE, WA My first real job was working at a big variety store in Las Vegas. About midway into the bowling season, I joined the store’s team, the Sons of Italy. Being half Italian, I thought the name suited me just fine. In just a few months, I became team captain.

That year played out like a Cinderella story. Our team and another were tied for first place and it came down to the last game of the season.

I was the anchor and always the last to bowl. The other teams had finished bowling and it was quiet in the huge alley—all 48 lanes. I had one frame left and I needed three strikes to win.

I did it! And yes, the crowd went wild.

STRIKING IT

BIG

"My dad, who is 91 now, was a pinsetter in Detroit—until a man threw a ball while Dad was in the lane. Dad never said exactly what he did to the guy, but he went after him."

DONALD J. RIMER

WORN WITH PRIDE “My dad wore this in the early ’70s when he earned a spot on the Stark County Bowling Proprietors Association All County team in Canton, Ohio,” writes JANICE LEWIS of Menifee, CA. “He bowled well into his 80s and averaged over 200 for his career.”

MILT HEGER • EVERETT, WA

Alley Lingo Bed Posts The 7-10 split.

AN AMF AD from 1959 touts air-cooled bowling alleys as havens on hot days.

Leagues filled lanes in winter, but alleys had to work to get summer business.

Baby Split The 2-7 or 3-10 split—pins left standing after the first throw. The gap is narrower than a typical split, such as the 7-10, which makes it easier to knock down both pins for the spare.

Brooklyn A ball that hits on the side of the head pin opposite the side from which it was thrown—on the left for a righthanded player, for instance.

Also known as “Jersey Side.”

Dutch 200 A game of alternating strikes and spares, for a score of 200.

Open Frame A frame without a strike or spare.

Picket Fence The 1-2-4-7 or the 1-3-6-10 spares.

Perfect Game A game of 12 strikes, for a score of 300.

Pocket The spot to hit to maximize the pin action for a strike, usually the 1-3 or 1-2 gap.

Six Pack Six strikes in a row.

Spare Knocking down all remaining pins on the second throw.

Strike Knocking down all 10 pins on the first throw.

Turkey Three strikes in a row.

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BARBARA JOHNSON HUDSON, FL

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HE WAS A

During my sophomore and junior years of high school in the late 1950s, I worked as a pin boy at the Marion Bowlaire in Marion, Indiana.

Spotting pins was semi-automatic. Each lane had a rack with slots for each pin’s position. When the ball hit the pins we jumped into the pit, retrieved the ball, and set it on the ball return, then grabbed the knocked-over pins and set them in the rack.

Errant pins rammed me in the shins a few times, and once, I got a concussion when I was hit in the head. If a bowler threw exceptionally hard, smacking us with flying pins, we’d show our displeasure by putting a backspin on the ball in the return, so it wouldn’t quite make it up at the other end. The bowler would have to chase his ball back down the lane.

Revenge was sweet.

We’d pick up two pins in each hand while setting. Doing that day after day gave us forearms the size of Popeye’s.

No one would arm-wrestle us.

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“He bowled against Carmen Salvino (who won 17 Professional Bowlers Association titles). Uncle Johnny always bowled with a big stogie hanging from his mouth.”

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“Smokey, this is not Nam. This is bowling.

There are rules.”

—Walter Sobchak (John Goodman), The Big Lebowski (1998) Second-Best Line From a Movie About Bowling (because its best line is unprintable)

“You’re on a gravy train with biscuit wheels.”

—Ernie McCracken (Bill Murray), Kingpin (1996) Best Cartoon Bowler Homer Simpson Other Best Cartoon Bowler Fred Flintstone

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True love happens when you least expect it. Whether it was the girl next door or the guy fixing the kitchen, these lovebirds found their mates through patience, persistence and playful humor.

The ‘No’ Girl Says Yes BY JACK JOSEPH SCOTTSDALE, AZ

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ome from the Navy in 1947, I started school at Greenville College in my hometown of Greenville, Illinois, about 50 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri. I had been out of high school for four years, but my high school principal, Mr. Gardner, invited me to a Valentine’s Day dance at school. We lived in a small community, and the thought of seeing my former teachers was intriguing. So I agreed.

VALENTINE'S DAY holds a special place in Jack’s heart. That’s when he met his wife-to-be, Marilyn.

When Friday came, I cleaned up, gussied up and drove to the high school gym. I chatted with my former teachers and approached Mr. Gardner to thank him before leaving. Just then, the band started playing and a young woman stood up to sing. One look at her and I was mesmerized. I had never seen such a beautiful woman, so I concluded that she must be from a nearby town.

I asked Mr. Gardner who she was, and he answered, “That’s Marilyn Riley, Cut Riley’s daughter.”

I was flabbergasted to say the least. The Rileys lived just around the corner from me.

I walked across the gym floor to introduce myself and said, “Hi, I’m Jack Joseph.”

“I know who you are,” was her nottoo-friendly response.

“Would you like to dance?” I asked.

“No!” she shot back.

“Why not?”

“I’m working,” she replied.

“Can I call you next week for a movie date?” I asked.

“No,” was her response.

I could see no reason to argue, so I thanked her for nothing, tucked my pride in my coat pocket and left.

For the next month I phoned, trying to set up a date. She always had the same answer: No. Then one rainy afternoon in March as I was driving home after basketball practice, I saw Marilyn, the “No” girl, walking with no umbrella, no raincoat, no hat.

I pulled alongside her and asked if she needed a ride, half expecting her to say no. Instead, she stepped over the curb and plopped down on the seat next to me. It was only a few blocks to her house, but after pulling into her driveway we talked for 45 minutes. It was magic from then on.

Valentine’s Day will always hold a special place in my heart. The most beautiful woman I’d ever seen became mine.

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JUST MARRIED, Mary and Reginald spent their wedding night with her dad and her uncle.

More Than Two’s a Crowd

we left it was past MY HUSBAND, 9 and we still had Reginald, and I were a distance to go married on July 24, down the long drive 1948, at a little stone to the camp. church in CastletonEverything was on-Hudson, New dark when we pulled York. It was a lovely in, and we had to get summer day, and the electricity and the ceremony and plumbing up and the reception went running. Then we beautifully. For our unpacked our bags honeymoon, we had and put away the planned to spend a groceries. By then week at Indian Lake in MARY GLANCES BACK it was 11 p.m. the Adirondacks, where nervously after forgetting her bouquet at the altar.

I worried about the my husband’s family men driving on the had a camp. roads at night, so I suggested to my Unfortunately, we didn’t own a car, so my Uncle Paul volunteered to drive new husband that perhaps my Uncle Paul and Dad should spend the night us to the lake, accompanied by my and drive back in the morning. My dad. We set off at 5 that afternoon husband readily agreed—he and my with my two relatives in tow.

It was close to 8 when we arrived at dad were very close. And that’s how we spent our wedding night with my the lake and, by then, everyone was quite hungry. We went to Farrell’s, the dad and Uncle Paul.

MARY J. TRYON • NASSAU, NY only restaurant in Indian Lake. When

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IT WAS ONLY PUPPY LOVE for Ardella Score of Minot, ND, who saved her grade school Valentine’s Day cards from the 1940s.

Children exchanged cards during school parties.

SANDY AND NORMAN had a series of stumbles, but their love stayed strong.

Not Your Typical Romeo

BY NORMAN KAY • ELKINS PARK, PA

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ur honeymoon started on June 21, 1947, at the Drake Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

I woke up in the middle of the night to a hard push and wound up on the floor. I remember thinking, Is there an unspoken message here?

The next morning Sandy and I boarded a train to Miami Beach, Florida. When the conductor asked for our tickets, I handed him our marriage license by mistake.

He looked me and said, “This is good for a lot of rides, but not on this train. You’ll have to produce a ticket.”

Later that morning, after ordering pancakes in the dining car, a woman across the table asked why I was pouring coffee on my pancakes. “It isn’t coffee; it’s syrup,” I replied. “They probably heat

it up to make it pour easier.”

Well, I was wrong and she was right. It was coffee.

When we pulled into Fort Lauderdale and went to our hotel, another surprise awaited—twin-size beds. I immediately called the desk and told the clerk I was on my honeymoon and definitely had ordered a double bed. The clerk told me that they didn’t have a double bed but that I could push together the two singles. I raised my voice and said, “I want what I ordered.”

A double bed was delivered— at 6:30 the next morning.

Things were definitely starting to add up, and after I mistakenly used Vaseline instead of underarm deodorant, my lovely new bride expressed a look of concern about our lifelong commitment.

Sure enough, when we returned to Philadelphia,

I sprained my back carrying her across the threshold of our new home and spent two weeks in bed.

That was 68 years ago, and I don’t put coffee on my pancakes or Vaseline under my arms anymore. But after reviewing what I wrote here, a second honeymoon would be most welcome.

Y YNE EVEL

SCHOOL SPIRIT The Hiram High School chorus of Hiram, OH, was the 1934 small-school state RICHAR D champion at the contest at Capital University in Columbus. Richard Spencer was “a little guy” and in love with Evelyyne, a girl who was a year older and in the class ahead of him. By the time he got to Hiram College in 1939, he’d grown to 5 feet 4 inches and was taller than her. They married while in college.

Now 97 and 98 years old and living in Hiram, they’ve been married 77 years.

Music is still a big part of their lives.

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His Heart Was in the Right Place

NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER Ruth Esther Deihm and her beau, John Rutherford Phillips, loved cruising through the West End neighborhood of Norristown, PA, back in the Roaring Twenties. But it had been eight years, and upon hearing that her muchyounger sister was getting married at age 19 on Feb. 24, 1934, Ruth had a fit, according to her niece Ruthmarie Brooks Silver of Eagleville.

So Ruth and John rushed to get married two months sooner, on Ruth’s birthday, Dec. 2.

MY BROTHER JOHN had just returned after serving in the military in World War II. While waiting for a permanent job he had been promised, he took on a few odd jobs for family and friends. Around the neighborhood he became known as Mr. Fixit.

It was February when he started a project to paint the interior of a house. The owner was a young widow named Cathy, a friend of a friend. As he painted, she went about her daily household chores and errands.

They would chat briefly or catch a smiling glimpse of each other. He finally reached the last room to paint—the kitchen. Reluctantly, he put the finishing touches on his work. She brewed a pot of fresh coffee, and they both sat at the kitchen table while figuring the total expense of the paint job.

“It’s a good thing I was off that ladder before I fell,” he said with a teasing tone in his voice.

As she glanced about the room, she finally got the message. To her amazement, she saw a neat row of red hearts painted around the edge of the ceiling.

One large heart in the center was inscribed, “I love you!” It was Valentine’s Day.

RUTH J. ANDERSON • GROVE, OK

Melvin and I met on a blind date in February 1961 and were married two years later on Feb. 16, 1963.”

JENNIE CROMWELL SONORA, KY

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THE ISLAND OF ROMANCE Catalina Island was where Lorraine and Mark Patrick O’Brien met in 1947. It was a Labor Day holiday, and the couple danced on the steamship all the way back to the California mainland. They married in 1948 and danced for 47 more years. “He is gone, but I’m still dancing and wearing a bathing suit at 91,” says Lorraine, now of West Covina.

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WAYNE MET Claudette when he purchased supplies for his farm, top right. Here the couple strolls while on a date in 1953.

Best Reason to Buy a Missouri Farm BY WAYNE FORAN • BEMENT, IL

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t 27, after serving in World War II, I dreamed of owning a piece of land. So I moved from central Illinois to Shelbina, Missouri, and bought 236 acres for $6,000. The plot of land was situated on a dirt road and was half farmland and half trees, with an old house that had no running water or electricity.

Obviously, it was not what you’d call prime real estate. But it was mine.

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I was alone for the first time in my life, and I found it liberating.

My days were filled from dawn until dusk with plowing and planting corn. Dinnertime came and went, and I barely remembered to eat.

I wouldn’t say I was a great success at farming in Missouri.

However, when I went to the store to buy some plowshares, I met a nice woman named Claudette working behind the counter. I also ran into her at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Shelbina each week. I found out later that her manager kept asking her about “that tall boy (and eligible bachelor) from Illinois living out in the country in an old house with no water, no electricity and no housekeeper.”

Claudette and her sister soon visited my farm and put up some curtains. To show my appreciation, I took Claudette out for a ride in my 2½-ton Studebaker truck. We married in 1954 and have now been together for more than 62 years!

I later sold the Missouri farm for a $3,500 profit and bought 40 acres in Illinois. For many reasons, buying the Missouri farm was a good idea. I will always cherish memories of owning the farm and meeting my beloved.

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When epic rivalries clashed with a toss of the dice and the flip of a card.

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MONOPOLY MONKEY BUSINESS

BY PEGGY TROWSDALE • HADASHVILLE, MB

G

rowing up in the 1950s and ’60s with four siblings gave me many memorable experiences. Playing Monopoly with my two older brothers was just one of them.

Sitting at the kitchen table in our old farmhouse, my brothers taught me everything about board games that our parents didn’t want us to know. When we played, Bruce (four years older than me) was the banker and Warren (seven years my elder) was the real estate agent. The cards were stacked against me from the start.

There was more cheating going on between the two of them than you’d find in a Hank Williams song. My brothers were sneaky, and they’d trade money and property cards under the table. When I wasn’t looking, green

BY THE Kerosene Light In the 1940s and ’50s, Mary Ann Gove’s family spent time each summer at a cabin in the pines near Payson, AZ. At night, they sat around the table lit by a kerosene lantern, playing Monopoly and eating dozens of her mom’s chocolate chip cookies. Mary Ann always bought the cheap properties so her money would go further, but ended up going bankrupt when she landed on Boardwalk or Park Place.

houses and red hotels would magically appear on their properties. As the clock ticked, the boys got richer while I, their poor—very poor—and naïve little sister, would get closer to bankruptcy.

After spending about an hour trying to prove they were cheating, I’d quit.

Then I would exclaim that this was the last game of Monopoly I would ever play with them. Ever.

Inevitably, they would coax me to play again, promising no more monkey business. Over and over, I believed them. We would start another game, but just like a repeat of an old Three Stooges episode, the whole circus would start again.

So much for friendly competition.

Today, though it’s almost 60 years later, I still shake my head at what a gullible little sister I was!

Lesson Learned ur Monopoly games could go on for a week or more. My mother, Rosa, had a special spot on the kitchen floor where we could keep the game board safe until the next day.

I’ll always remember one game we kids played with my mom, my dad, Geoff, and Pat, a man who worked for my dad. I was having an especially good game with hotels and houses on several properties, including Broadway and Park Place. So I spent a lot of time counting my money.

I noticed that everyone kept laughing. Too late, I realized that while I was counting my winnings, Pat had landed on my properties several times and moved on without paying me rent! If only Kenny Rogers’ song “The Gambler” had been around then to instruct me—I didn’t know not to count my money while sitting at the table!

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O Me and My Scottie MY SISTER EVA and I played Monopoly every chance we got, but sometimes Eva would only play if I promised to bake a Chef Boyardee pizza from the box. I was more than happy to comply.

I really loved the challenge of the game, and I loved buying hotels for my properties.

When either one of us ran out of play money, we would make up our own IOUs. My favorite game piece?

The cute little Scottie dog, of course!

Oh, it’s probably some word like syzygy.

ur family loved to play board games. One of our favorites was a game called Probe, which was similar to Hangman or Wheel of Fortune in that you tried to guess letters in another player’s hidden word.

After we were all grown and living on our own, we would schedule our vacations every year so that we could gather at my parents’ home in Iowa for a week.

One vacation, my brother Brent came all the way from Idaho with a secret word he had kept in his billfold all year.

Upon his arrival, the bragging began. He was sure he had the winning word; no one would ever guess it; the stumper of all stumpers—and so on.

“Oh, it’s probably some word like syzygy (three celestial bodies in a line),” I said.

Brent froze. “What did you say?”

He opened his billfold and took out the paper. Sure enough, there was the word syzygy.

Looking back, I am not really sure if we ever played that game of Probe, but for me it was the greatest win I ever had.

JEWELL WRIGHT • ALTOONA, IA

KARIN RASMUSSEN GRASS VALLEY, CA

What a Treat!

I STILL HAVE the Monopoly game I received as a child in 1961. My mom laughed so hard while playing once that she spat a mouthful of coffee on that board!

My love for the game led to my collecting Monopoly versions. I have about a dozen of them. My granddaughter’s favorite is Chocolate-opoly, which I won in a local Valentine’s Day contest. We put a piece of chocolate on the Free Parking corner, and whoever lands there gets to eat it. Yum!

CATHERINE McCOY • ADDY, WA SWEET PUNISHMENT Instead of Jail, Chocolate-opoly sends players to Chocoholics Anonymous. It also has squares for “Messy Fingers Tax” and “Lost Eclair Repair.”

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ON A CHRISTMAS NIGHT many years ago, my family and I were playing Trivial Pursuit, the hot new board game that I had received as a gift that morning.

My dad (an MIT graduate and the smartest one in the family) got the question, “Who were Gaspar, Melchior and Balthazar?”

He had no idea. Dad sat there wracking his brain, but couldn’t come up with the answer.

We all started whistling the carol “We Three Kings.” And remember, this was Christmas night!

Frustrated, Dad yelled, “Shut up! I’m trying to think.” Naturally, we kept whistling.

Finally, the lightbulb went on. Dad slapped his forehead and exclaimed, “Of course!” Then he gave us his answer: “The Three Musketeers!”

DAVID STOUT • GRANADA HILLS, CA

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n the early 1970s, we had the board game Mad, named after the magazine featuring Alfred E. Neuman. While it was fun to play, it certainly had the right name because someone always ended up “mad.”

The rules were, well, whatever you decided they would be at the time. One day at our cabin in Angelica, New York, we decided that if you landed on a particular space on the board, you had to change chairs with the person on your left. You also got to keep all of that player’s money.

On this occasion, George, my son-in-law’s cousin, landed on the space.

He looked at his cousin Kyle to his left, and they got up and exchanged their actual chairs, keeping their own money. Their wives argued with them, and things got heated.

The guys said, “Read the directions! We did exactly as the space said!”

My daughter Jackie was so mad that she took the game outside and threw it in the fire.

That was the end of that.

STANLEY BROWN ANGOLA, NY

“You Sunk My Battleship!”

Battleship turns 50 this year.

Some fun facts: Some say it started during World War I, a variation of the French game L’Attaque.

Or it may have been inspired by the 1890 E.I. Horseman game Baslinda.

It was originally played by drawing grids on blank paper.

And there were land areas; it wasn’t all water. Preprinted grids were sold in the 1930s with names such as Combat—The Battleship Game, Broadsides—A Game of Naval Strategy, and Salvo.

In 1979, it was one of the first board games to be made into a computer game. In 1983, Milton Bradley came out with an electronic version.

Battleship, a sci-fi action movie based on the game, was released in 2012.

MICHELE WOJCIECHOWSKI

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AL PACINO played the conflicted youngest son, Michael, who took over the Corleone family in The Godfather: Part II.

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Andolini (Robert De Niro) grew into the feared New York mafia leader, Don Corleone, and how his reluctant, idealistic youngest son, Michael (Al Pacino), took over the fragile empire to protect the family—and eventually lost his soul.

Coppola’s vast canvas earned him critical praise, though some complained that the complex and shifting alliances in the plot were tough to follow and left some loose threads. Coppola tried to tie them up in The Godfather: Part III (1990), but many devotees consider this installment the weakest of the franchise.

The Godfather: Part II outperformed The Godfather at the Academy Awards, winning six Oscars, including three for Coppola (Director, Picture and Adapted Screenplay). It was the first sequel in film history to win Best Picture.

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PART II showed how Vito (Robert De Niro) became head of the crime family.

QUICK TAKES I like The Godfather Legacy (2012, The History Channel documentary), where they took the first two films, put them together by timeline and added some deleted scenes. For me, at least, it explained a few unanswered questions.

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I loved that it gave more background detail on how Vito Corleone got his start and that it lent more detail to how Michael Corleone almost had no choice but to live the destiny he lived.

ROBERT DE NIRO won a supporting Oscar.

If a day goes by when I don’t quote from both movies, then that day is wasted.

It’s an ageless movie that was put together very well. All the actors were great. I like Robert De Niro as the young godfather.

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The Coppolas are a talented bunch—and Francis (with daughter Sofia, above) has worked with members of his extended family several times over his career.

Talia Shire, Francis’ sister, plays Michael Corleone’s sister, Connie, in all three Godfather movies.

Carmine Coppola, Francis’ father and a composer, shared the Best Dramatic Score Oscar for The Godfather: Part II with Nino Rota.

Sofia Coppola, Francis’ daughter, played Michael Corleone’s daughter, Mary, in The Godfather: Part III. Other family connections include Francis’ nephews Nicolas Cage (by brother August) and Jason Schwartzman (by sister Talia).

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It traced how the orphaned Vito

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“My father made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.”

“Leave the gun.

Take the cannoli.”

“It’s a Sicilian message.

It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.”

“It’s not personal, Sonny.

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“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”

“If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone. “ “I’m smart and I want respect!”

“I know it was you, Fredo.

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“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”

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ill Haley & The Comets recorded the single “Thirteen Women” for Decca Records in 1954. With 30 minutes remaining to record the flip side—a dance number absurdly labeled a fox trot—the first two takes proved unusable, and studio time ran out. Undaunted, producer Milt Gabler combined those attempts to create the master for “Rock Around the Clock.”

Disc jockeys preferred the “Clock” side, and the song became a minor hit that year before fading quickly.

ROCK AROUND The following year, though, the song THE CLOCK changed American popular music. When Haley’s voice thundered through theater speakers behind the credits for the film Blackboard Jungle, teens went crazy and often danced in theater aisles. Decca reissued the disc, which quickly locked in the No. 1 chart position for eight weeks.

Fast-forward 18 years to 1973. George 25 Million sold Lucas’ movie American Graffiti opened with “1, 2, 3 o’clock, 4 o’clock, ROCK!” Recorded more than Six months later, Garry Marshall’s new 500 Times TV series, Happy Days, premiered with Recording artists the same opening theme. The anthem include Mae West, generated so much interest that in 1974, the Osmonds, Tiny it reached the Top 40 singles list—for the Tim, Pat Boone and third time in two decades. the Sex Pistols

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Godfather lines and references have popped up in other movies (You’ve Got Mail, Point Break) and TV shows (Seinfeld, The Simpsons). The franchise is such a rich part of American culture, even people who have never seen a Godfather movie can quote from at least one of the films.

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BY LORRAINE HAWKINSON • OREGON, WI

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“YOU’RE SURE IN THERE,” the garage man said, standing near his tow truck. I knew that already. If I weren’t “in there,” I would not have called him.

We both considered my predicament. I’d parked too close to the wall, so the passenger side of my car was lodged behind the frame of the garage door. I couldn’t back out and I couldn’t pull up.

How had this happened? After all, we have a large double garage. There should have been plenty of room. But I have to admit it wasn’t the first time I’d done this. In the past, by maneuvering the car a few inches forward and back, I’d been able to ease it far enough to clear the doorjamb.

The situation this time was out of hand.

I’d tried my old trick of inching the car 2 inches forward then 2 inches back, but it struck the wall at both points and remained resolutely behind the jamb. I’d tried jacking up the car—at the same time learning how to use the new scissors jack—but that made it tip closer to the wall with a scratchy sound that hurt my ears. I’d even thought of trying to bounce it sideways by pumping vigorously on the rear bumper. No luck.

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not standing still. I’d considered staying home (I was feeling quite sick), but the thought of my husband seeing the car in such an impossible position canceled that idea quickly.

Finally, admitting defeat, I called Schmity’s.

After a series of squats and deep bends, along with some mysterious clucking, the tow truck driver decided that a low winch on the rear axle at a 90-degree angle would be the thing to try.

“Get in and set the brakes real tight and hold them,” the fellow ordered. i thought, Slowly the heavy cable i’ll never tightened and the car tell my began to inch to the left.

It worked! husband “Whoopee!” I hollered. about this I thanked the man. I as long thanked him again. And I paid him. I paid him an as i live. enormous amount.

All day long I thought, I’ll never tell my husband about this as long as I live. But by the time I got home, the whole thing seemed kind of funny. So I told him.

And would you believe it? The grumpy sorehead didn’t think it was one bit funny.

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BACK IN TIME BARBARA’S GRANDPARENTS Amos and Anna Miller used Anna’s maiden name, Hebel, as their children’s middle names.

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The following naming patterns illustrate a common practice during America’s early days: FIRST SON—named after the paternal grandfather SECOND SON—named after the maternal grandfather THIRD SON—named after the father

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Recently, I was working on the Miller family genealogy and discovered that my great-great-great-grandfather, Joseph Miller, born in 1778, and his wife, Susan Eshelman, gave each of their children the

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Their son, Christian Eshelman Miller, married Susan Harnish in 1834, and each of their children had the middle name Harnish.

Their son, Abram Harnish Miller, married Lizzie Kreider in 1885 and each of their children had the middle name Kreider.

One of their sons, my grandfather Amos Kreider Miller, married my grandmother Anna Hebel in 1914. Their son Wilbur Hebel Miller was my father.

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One day, Mom noticed the car was going through oil. She couldn’t figure out what was causing the trouble, so she made an appointment for the dealer to check it out.

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For many years I owned a barbershop in our small Tennessee town, and I’d often see an old car parked on the street near the shop.

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On Christmas Eve 2012, our daughter Kim became the fourth owner of Miss Cettie. We wanted to be sure that it and Miss Keys’ legacy would be well cared for.

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BACK IN TIME ON A TENSE DAY TRIP to East Berlin, the students got permission to take pictures of the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

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A WINDOW ON THE GRAY WALL BY PEGGY OELS • KAPLAN, LA men were terrifying until we realized that it t 18, during the summer of 1974, was basically a speed trap—they hit us up for I went on a European college trip a large cash fine for “speeding.” through a small New England We camped out in West Berlin, which was university. I was the youngest in the smack in the middle of East Germany. (This group. It wasn’t fancy. We mostly surprised me. I had envisioned Berlin on the stayed in hostels and ate PB&J sandwiches for border between the two countries.) our lunch—but we did get to spend Our campground was right next two months in Europe.

The sirens to the wall, which was about 12 Watching the movie Bridge of Spies and armed feet high, and you could climb recently brought back memories men were up onto a platform to look over of this trip. It showed shots of the it. That part of East Berlin was a Berlin Wall with rolls of barbed terrifying residential street that dead-ended wire, armed East German soldiers until we into the wall. Our team leaders on the ground and in towers, and told us that there weren’t guards a bare stretch of no-man’s-land. It realized and barbed wire in this part of looked just like that when I saw it. that it was town because the people who The soldiers also had big, fierce basically a lived in those houses were trusted dogs. One morning we heard the members of East German society. sirens go off when someone made speed trap.

I’m glad I got a chance to a break for freedom. see the wall, but the presence of the stern, We’d heard stories about other school machine-gun-carrying soldiers everywhere groups having problems traveling behind the made me nervous. The roughly 100-mile-long Iron Curtain. In one group, all of the guys structure was big and grim, and a constant had to shave off their facial hair. Magazines, reminder of how limited life was for the people newspapers, Bibles and some novels were there—and how fortunate we were in America. confiscated during searches of everything.

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