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...captives is Yale's Edward G. Begle, 46, a math professor and father of seven who once spent his days hammering topology into graduate students and his nights wrestling with juvenile homework. The nights were worse than the days. When Daughter Sally bogged down in percentages, Papa Begle blew up. Sally's math book explained percentages three ways without touching on the common principle. "It was dull, terrible, uninteresting," growls Begle. "It was so revolting that I had to do something...
...Bydgoszcz. At night, tenting a blanket over his head to hide his flash light beam from the Valley Forge duty officer, Salinger (by now called Jerry) had written his first short stories. But if he told his family that he intended to be an author, he did not convince Papa Sol. In 1937, after Jerry spent a few unproductive weeks at New York University, the two Salingers set out for Vienna. "I was supposed to apprentice myself to the Polish ham business," Salinger wrote in a 1944 issue of Story Magazine. "They finally dragged me off to Bydgoszcz...
...when the girl laughs him off as a "fat old fool,'' the mother is only too ready to offer him consolation. In the end, two of the daughter's boy friends fight, and one of them is killed. Stricken with guilt, the wench cries out: "Oh Papa! It's all my fault!'' It isn't, though. Hovelist Erskine Caldwell's breast-selling book, on which the film is based, negotiates such a ruttish stretch of his notorious Tobacco Road that anybody who tries to follow him is sure to get stuck...
Last week the 34 boys gathered at London airport in striped school ties and dark blue blazers. They were temporarily disappointed when the twin-engined Vickers Viking charter plane, christened "Papa Mike." taxied out for takeoff, then had to return for new spark plugs in one engine. Finally, after a five-hour delay, the plane got away...
...would make an instrument letdown. He made one futile pass, headed back out to sea to start another approach. "Cleared to descend to 1,400 feet." advised the Sola tower. There was no reply. Next morning, after an all-night sea and air search, the fire-gutted wreckage of "Papa Mike" was found by a farmer on the peak of 1,730-ft. Holte Heia mountain. Strewn across the mountain in their blazers were the charred bodies of Trevor Cowdell, John Wells. Reggie Chappie. Quentin Green. Alan Lee and all their schoolmates...