Word: mimi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mimi & Wolf. It all began in a Berchtesgaden park in 1926. Maria, 16, and Hitler, 37, were walking their police dogs. He was just a struggling young party leader then. Hitler liked Maria's fresh Nordic charm, and she confessed to her sister: "He cuts a fine figure with those riding breeches and that riding crop." Hitler invited her to come and hear him speak. Afterward, he fed her cake with his fingers, but when she refused him a good-night kiss, Hitler glowered and stalked out with an abrupt "Heil...
...soon they were taking long rides in Hitler's Mercedes. Hitler called her "Mimi," and at his request she called him "Wolf." The only thing that troubled Mimi was that Wolf would never put down his riding crop. Then one golden day they got out of the car and romped in the meadows like children. Leading Mimi to a tall pine, Hitler said: "Just stand there as you are. You're my forest sprite . . . Later you will understand." It was their first stormy kiss. "I was so happy I wished I could die," says Maria...
Phil plays a passable clarinet, Mimi at best has a middling voice, and their humor -which leans heavily on Mimi's buck teeth-belongs to the Keith-Orpheum circuit of three decades ago. In a way, they are so bad that they are disarming. There is a youthful nice-kid quality about them, and an innocent gaiety that captivates audiences: Ford and Hines were an instant national hit when Jack Paar gave them a guest shot last August...
They had plenty of time to develop their style. By the time she was eleven, Mimi was a regular winner of amateur contests around Vancouver, B.C., where she grew up. At 15 she had a fulltime job singing at Vancouver's Mandarin Gardens. "It was a real trap," she remembers. "If you shut the front and back doors, you'd catch every hoodlum in town." Mimi drifted down to Oregon, then headed north to the hurly-burly of Alaska. "A guy named Phil Ford had an act there. I saw him, and he saw me. Sparks flew...
Happily for their admirers, Phil and Mimi have remained unchanged by success. Says Phil: "We learned the routine in tough clubs. Why change?" There is obviously no reason to change anything at all-not even Mimi's teeth. Between them, Phil Ford and Mimi Hines expect to gross more than $150,000 in 1959, and, says Mimi, "without my teeth, I don't know what I'd do for laughs...