Mad Magazine cover - August 2017
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Got the smug look down pat.
My Dad got his PhD in chemistry at 21 at Brooklyn Polytech. He helped all the guys study. When they'd say, "Hey, Al (Alfred S. Cummin), there's an exam tomorrow!", his catch phrase was, "What, Me Worry?"
Although my Dad's face was very round and he always wore a suit and tie, he didn't *look* like Alfred E. He was dark with a big nose, thick black eyebrows and looked like a wiseguy. Apparently an actual wiseguy thought so one day when he was at a bar waiting for my mother to get out of class in college at NYU.
Bill Gains hated chemistry, he left Brooklyn Poly and got into comics. 
We had him over to the house a lonnnnng time ago, he autographed his book for me..."Dear Cindy, I'm MAD about your father, I'm MAD about your mother, I'm MAD about you!" In really big big letters.
I don't know what happened to that book, shucks!
Somewhere, I hope it's not disappeared, there's a pic of my Dad with him, and a couple of the cartoonists. I think, maybe writers or something. Wish I had gotten their names. He took me to their offices in NYC, too, when I was looking at colleges. I'd done cartoons for the jr high newspaper. Bill Gaines wasn't there though.
I was such a wreck back then, though, chronic illness, fearful and traumatized, I barely remember. Except it was an old building and I was in awe. 
Me worry?
