Mother's Day

May, 1960

Mother's DayYesterday Evening, Zoe and I were sitting in the living room, when the telephone rang. Without a thought on my mind, I picked up the receiver and said, in tenor, as follows: "This is a recorded announcement. Do you suffer from coughs, colds, tightness around the chest? Then try Hydoplexideem. It contains gustodex, pyroflavin and rich nodules of flicomycin. Now for the time. It is exactly nine-forty-seven." There was a long silence and a million miles away I heard someone ha...