Mad Magazine cover - August 2017

[BlancheSplanchnik]

24. My Dad went to college with Bill Gaines. He helped Bill study.

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.