I don't
know that anyone reading this also read the
April Stevens series, but I was sitting around wondering what
would happen today in Genoa City worth writing about when the
archive files I'd used to compile the Stevens report caught my eye.
Not the Stevens part, other stuff, like Cole Howard. Remember Mr.
Howard? Sorry to say, no dirty little coward shot Mr. Howard, but I
digress.
It was April 1994 when Cole went to the Genoa City County Clerk's
Office to find out who ordered his mother's grave dug up.
Discovering it had been Victor Newman, Cole hoofed it over to Newman
Towers and making his way to the 35th floor, confronted the great
man.
"Why did you dig up my mother?"
In his best whispered voice, Victor said, "I had my reasons. There
are things you don't know about your mother. She (Eve Howard) was a
very devious woman."
With a determined look on his face, Cole slugged Victor and knocked
him out cold. "Waking up" moments later, there was no bruise on his
face where Cole had hit him.
"Very few men could do what you've just done. That's a helluva right
cross," Victor said as he then explained why Eve had to be dug up.
Cole could be Victor's son, and since he was sweet on Victor's
daughter Victoria, there was the risk of brother and sister having
sex.
Shortly thereafter DNA test results proved Cole was not a Newman.
Cole wanted to rush off and tell Victoria, but Victor told him not
to and so Cole returned to the Newman Ponderosa tacky room where he
began writing a new book. Note: back then what is now the tacky
house, was just a room; a tack room next to the horse stables.
Cole had just begun pecking away at a word processor, one that never
needed plugging in, when Nikki Newman dropped by. Aglow, that he
could now marry Victoria, Cole thanked Nikki. "You've helped me
bring me out of myself," he actually said, and then gave Nikki a
load of spit.
Meanwhile, a distraught Victoria had withdrawn her life savings and
run away. Sitting on a park bench waiting for a bus, she engaged a
stranger in small talk. Although the man was 6-feet away from her,
he managed to swipe Victoria's purse. With no money, Victoria found
work as a waitress.
Learning that she could be in any of twelve cities, Cole hired a
skywriter to write the following message. "Victoria, please phone
home. I love you!" The odds against it, Victoria just happened to be
outside the diner taking a break when she saw the message.
Alas, as
we are painfully aware, Cole and Victoria were married, but the
marriage didn't last long when Cole fell for Ashley Abbott whom he
married and that marriage also failed. Of course Nikki was also
after Cole and when Victoria found out she hissed at mommy, "You're
a love sick airhead. You make me sick the way you drool all over
Cole. Don't you have any pride?"
When Victor found out that Nikki was hot for Cole, he ripped into
her. Afterwards, Nikki whimpered, "Nobody cares about me. I'm
sitting around getting lonelier and lonelier."
At about the same time Nikki decided to ship her son Nick, a mere
child at the time, away to a Swiss boarding school. Nick Newman
would return six months later all grown up and looking for babes.
Finally, there's this tidbit I found quite interesting. The vet who
had come to the Ponderosa to treat 'Blue Smoke', the colicky horse,
was named Kellogg.
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