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Dick Cavett
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Dick Cavett:
Fireworks
Way
Better
in the Good Ol' Days
OPINION
Jul 4, 2009 10:41 AM CDT
Dick Cavett: Fireworks
Way
Better in the Good Ol' Days
(Newser)
- Talk show legend Dick Cavett didn’t just like fireworks as a kid. “I
loved
them,” he writes in the
New York Times
. Not the pro displays, and definitely not “the despised ‘safe & sane’ fountains, sprinklers and snakes” that “girls and sissies liked.”...
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