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Papa was no king of the wild frontier, but for Utah Territory of the 1880s he was quick on the verbal draw. Mama was going on 18, with braided blond pigtails, when he fired these lines at her: "I love you, Tena Nielsen. I love you with the intensity of the desert sun. I love you with the sweep and grandeur of the mountain peaks. I love you with the humility of a peasant for a princess . . . Don't be afraid of the wrath of your people. My love for you will shield and protect you." Papa...
...Uncle Will won the Whitehorse Saloon and helped the former owner forget his troubles by plugging him with his pearl-handled revolver. The Whitehorse was the hottest honky-tonk in Silverlode. a raffish overnight boom town. Across the way lay Adenville, the Godfearing Mormon settlement. Caught between conflicting loyalties. Mama and Papa stayed true to each other, their children, and the best in each other's faith...
...brothers hooking their grandmother's wig with a fishing line to prove to the neighborhood small fry that she has been scalped by the Indians. The final episode in the book is funny, pathetic and brave. On his dying day Papa put on his boots and Mama would not let the attending doctor take them off because Papa always "wanted to die with his boots on." It's things like that that give the old West a good name...
...wake and trying to gore him with her 24-in. horn. Talbot watched from the rumble seat as the rhino drew alongside the elephant and ripped an 18-in. gash in his side. Then the two animals veered apart as if on diverging rails. "I suppose " says Talbot, "that mama went back to her baby and told him: That's how it's done...
...Italy, what Martine Carol is to France, shapely, blue-eyed Diana Dors, 24, is to Great Britain. Diana is a platinum blonde whose indefinable chemistry and heady allure have been greeted with international enthusiasm. The blasé French have called her "ravis-sante." The Italians have sighed "Mama mia!" Even the British, ever fond of understatement, have referred to her as "Britain's best visible export." Not one to belittle herself, Diana, once carried away by the symmetry of her own 35-23-35 figure, cried: "What merchandise! And boy, how it sells...