Mom and Dad were married on Halloween, 1942, in the apartment of Kenneth and Mamie Kling, on Fifth Avenue in New York. Today (Oct. 31, 2002) would be their sixtieth wedding anniversary.

The occasion was written up in the New York Times, in an article which is probably accessible from one of my Google links. I'll look for it.

Well, I couldn't find it, but I found out a little about Ken Kling. He was a cartoonist for the newspapers, and wrote "Joe Quince," later renamed "Joe and Asbestos." It ran for many years, from the early 1920's to the mid 1960's. He also wrote a brief strip called "Windy Riley."

My sister and I appeared in the strip briefly (not with our real names, of course), but I don't remember seeing it.

I remember visiting the Klings, and can never forget their myna bird, which had a huge vocabulary, and wasn't shy about talking.

Kling was also a tipster. In his cartoon strip were clues to his tips for the daily horse races. In order to decipher them, you had to buy a booklet at the race tracks. He also wrote a book called "How I Pick Winners."

If I recall correctly, Ken was my sister's godfather.

The marriage was performed by a judge whose name began with an S, I think.

I recall finding the Times article on microfilm, but I don't have access to their archives.

While looking for more information, I discovered more information online about Lila Lee and Milton Berle. Sorry I'm not maintaining this site better, but I'm trying to figure out how to present the math in the acoustics files properly, and struggling with my scanner.

Just recently, I downloaded emacs, which is a popular unix editor, I think. In any case, I've really got a lot of homework to do, just trying to figure out how things work.