Favorite newspaper section as a child? Mine was "Parade", (cont)

Arts & Leisure. NYT. And the weddings. I wanted to marry a nice boy and have our wedding announced in the Times, preferably on Monday.

Dear Abby. I wrote to her when I was eight years old. (She replied.)

Dear Abby, Ann Landers, Hints From Heloise, the Mailbag section of the tv insert with all the gossip questions.

I would have been entranced with the NYT as a child. Every once in a while my dad had a copy during the week that he would bring home from work but not the Sunday NYT. We got the local dispatch. And then in the 80s I feel like we got USA Today for a short while. It was color!

I just liked "Parade" for the 'Walter Scott's personality Parade" section, with the hilariously unconvincing fake questions purported to be from his readers.

Q. "Our family is simply mad about darling Keri Russell from TV's "Felicity." What's up next for the curly-haired cutie?" -- Mr. Richard Feder, Fort Lee, NJ

Re Hints from Heloise! I remember cutting them out and giving them to my mom. I'm sure she thought that was normal. Lord.

R5 Perfect! Absolutely what I loved each Sunday. Also why I didn't mind the Dentist because he had People Magazine and we didn't get that at home. Look it's Valerie Bertinelli!

Parade: Walter Scott, Marilyn vos Savant, all the Franklin Mint-style ads.

Comics, even the weird comics like "Love Is ... " and "Mark Trail" which were sprinkled in the want ads pages.

Abby and Ann.

And of course — THE MINI PAGE!

I'm surprised no one mentioned the travel section. Reading "Take the Concorde to London" as a 12-year-old.

My local paper used to have a section called “Speak Out” where they would print whatever people called in to say - lots of anonymous complaints about neighbors lawns, mostly.

I hate to think what it would be like today if it still existed.

Totally Marilyn vos Savant. I remember someone asking if men were really meant to be faithful. Her response was, probably not, but that didn't mean they couldn't try harder.

Family Circus and Marmaduke...

Peanuts was over my little head. I bought Family Circus anthologies.

Dear Walter Scott: So when is that sequel to "Ivanhoe" coming out?

Literate in Lansing

The Comics.

I liked Hints From Heloise. I remember she advised using club soda to get cum stains out of bedsheets.

Sure, Jan at r16. Club soda would have no effect on a protein stain.

I haven't thought about Marilyn vos Savant in years! She was/is married to Robert Jarvik (one of the co-developers of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart).

Section 2 of the Sunday NYT.

A.k.a. The Gay Sports Pages!

Obituaries.

The LA Times had a section called “Calendar”, which had museum, restaurant, movie and theater articles and reviews, and the comics on the last two pages.

My brother would get to read the comics first, then I took the section and read it front to back.

[quote]Sure, Jan at [R16]. Club soda would have no effect on a protein stain.

It's a joke you stupid fucking cunt

The comics. WHET Winnie Winkle?