Whose Father Wasn't?

These are my two favorite passages from all of literature, both in books I first read thirty or more years ago. I can almost repeat them from memory; I should have them embroidered on samplers and framed for display on my wall.The first comes from Merle Miller and Evan Rhodes's Only You, Dick Daring! or, How to Write One Television Script and Make $50,000,000, a True-life Adventure (New York: W.