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Tuesday, November 30, 1999

Family angry that worry-free statue is gone

Associated Press
 

   STEVENSVILLE, Mich. - What, they worry?
   Very much so, say Richard and Patty Harris, whose giant bust of Alfred E. Neuman has disappeared from their lawn.
   "It was an important piece for our family," Patty Harris said.
   The 5-foot-tall, 5-foot-wide statue of the Mad magazine mascot - complete with gapped teeth, freckles, big ears and polka-dot hat - went missing Halloween weekend after gracing the yard for more than nine years.
   The Harrises had bought the head from an antique dealer who had obtained it from an amusement park in Indiana.
   "It kind of reflects our family philosophy" Patty Harris said of Neuman's trademark "What, me worry?" line.
   "When the boys were born, we bought it," she told The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph in its Sunday's editions. "That was the outlook we wanted them to have on life."
  
  

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