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...hope, a number of different jobs well." He went home to England in 1958. In London's sporty Sunday The People, Dick George (as he was known to his U.S. acquaintances) began telling about father last week in a serialization of a forthcoming biography. His introduction to Papa was enough to stop Big Ben, bells, cogs and counterweights. Gist of it all: the P.M. was just as active in the boudoir as in Parliament. By Richard Lloyd George's count, his sire had 18 mistresses over almost 50 years, and by them had sired four illegitimate children-Observes...
Vanderford's main claim to fame is a white beard that combines with a baseball cap and sports shirt to give him a resemblance to that bullock-befriending bard, Ernest "Papa" Hemingway. Vanderford plays his part to the hilt, occasionally signs Hemingway's name for autograph seekers (growls Papa: "I don't care if he signs my name as long as he doesn't sign checks"), and passes out cards bearing his picture, true name and coy inscriptions, reading in Spanish, "Although two drops of water look alike, they are different," and in English, "Everyone...
...young lady is sore, it seems, because she is a French army brat and parental love is at parade rest. Papa is a cavalry colonel, more interested in charges than children, while Mama is a Spanish noblewoman too haughty for tender talk. What daughter knows about affection comes from spying on peasant maids and their trooper lovers on a slumbering military post before World War II. And what she learns of life comes from Daddy's batman, a sporting type named Killer, whose off-duty kicks come from impaling jack-lighted wildlife on the iron spikes attached...
...cannot come to terms with a world they think their parents botched. But so determined and savage is the heroine that the reader cannot really root for her. He is left only with a slightly subversive feeling of compassion for the baffled and sputtering villain of the piece, Papa the martinet...
...awkwardly at first, to chat. The bishop said he shared a cell in the hospital section with a 40-year-old Chinese who could speak English, that he received Chinese English-language papers, that he tried to keep in shape with morning calisthenics-"we did the same exercises with Papa." No, he had not been allowed to say Mass since his arrest 22 months...