1936-1959
August, 1936 - Conceived, Curley's Hotel, Rockaway Beach, NY.
May 12, 1937 - Born. God winces.
July, 1937 - Mother, brother Patrick, 5, and infant George flee father. Out window, down fire escape, through backyards to Uncle Tom's waiting car. Refuge at Peg Willets' farm in the Catskills.
December, 1937 - Legal separation of parents.
1940 - Early memory: George and family sitting around the living room radio listening to a partial eclipse of the sun. At this time he is told the family motto: "Someday We'll All Have Hats."
August 1941 - Moves to 519 West 121st St., NYC. Would live there 25 years. First everything occurs here: sex, drugs, rhythm & blues.
1943 - Started Corpus Christi grade school. First kiss: Ilda Muller-Thym, clay room. First parent-teacher report: "Fidgety and persistent mouth-breather."
1944 - Second grade: Featured xylophone soloist ("Teddy Bears' Picnic") during charity benefit held at Horace Mann School, honoring Eleanor Roosevelt and Joe Louis. George's first liberal benefit.
December 1945 - Father dies. Can't remember him.
1950 - Family moves to a town without "nice section," and takes up residence in deconsecrated church. Brother Patrick finds work as Somalian warlord, mother pursues hobby of pretending to be people who died many years ago.
1953 - Drops out of school after nine gruelling years.
1954 - Joins U.S. Air Force. Soviet Union goes on tactical alert.
1954-1956 - Receives three court-martial and numerous Article Fifteens (form of punishment just below court-martial). Attitude toward military service can be discerned by noting history of changes in rank: A/B, A/3c, A/2c, A/3c, A/2c, A/3c, A/B, A/3c.
July, 1956 - Starts off-base disc jockey job at radio station KJOE, Shreveport, La. Now officially in show business. Nineteen years old. The pussy scene improves.
1957 - General discharge under honorable conditions from USAF. Soviet Union returns to previously relaxed state.
1959 - Takes announcing job at WEZE, Boston. Fired after three months for driving mobile news van to New York to buy pot.
1959 - Takes 7pm-midnight deejay job at KXOL, Ft. Worth, Texas. Not fired