Sixty Slices of Life... on Wry

©1996-1999 by Fred Flaxman

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Part 1: Childhood... and Beyond

1. What I Learned About Life... from My Dog

2. The Buster Walk Jamboree

3. Losing a Whale of a Bet

4. A Donation from Murder, Inc.

5. My Criminal Career

6. Camp

7. A Drugstore Education

8. The Shadow Knows

9. Buster and the Rats

10. Inventing the Portable TV Camera

11. The Kiss of Death

12. What Is An Agnostic?

13. My Carnegie Hall Debut

14. Sink or Swim

 

Part 2: The College Years

15. A Symbollic, Logical Failure

16. Motorscooter Madness

17. Dirty Dancing

18. Coke Caps and Classics

19. Working with Tom Heyden

20. Getting High with Eleanor

21. Norman Thomas and the New Nigeria

22. Room for Rent: Will Accept Whites

23. Incident of Anti-Semitism

 

Part 3: Love, Marriage, Kids & Cats

24. Love Par Avion

25. A Unique Memorial to Uncle Bill

26. Saying "No" to TV

27. Introducing the Classics

28. Mischief

29. Meow Tse-Tung

30. Tumbleweed

31. To Be Announced

32. Ribsy

 

Part 4: The Private Life of a Public Broadcaster

33. Barcarolle No. 1

34. Birth of a Station

35. Renee Chaney & the Police

36. Support for Public Radio

37. The Saturday Night Massacre

38. Christmas in August

39. Honor America Day

40. Leon the Lion

41. From Paris with Love

42. French Fried in Belgium

43. The French Connection

44. My Dinner with Bibi

45. Bulgarian Diplomacy

46. Gastronomically Challenged

47. Chance Encounter

48. Sixty Days as a Columnist

 

Part 5: Horsing Around

49. The Pursuit of "Pure" Gasoline

50. Chicken!

51. The Hen Who Loved Haydn

52. Potbellied Pigs... and Husbands

53. Virtual Friends

54. Sharing the Fruits of Our Labor

     


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