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...doubt about what Alberto Ascari would be-if he lasted long enough to grow up. All his life. Alberto had lived with the sound, smell and danger of high-speed engines. Before he was five, he learned how to handle the wheel from his racing-driver father. Perched on papa's knee, little Alberto navigated the back roads of Milan, Italy, and the graceful curves of the old race track at Monza. By the time Alberto was seven, the elder Ascari was dead, killed in a crash at Montlhéry in the French Grand Prix. But the youngster...
...used to spread the gospel of good humor, love and fraternity. Some 2,500 adherents joined the cause, but somehow the concierges of Paris still glared as fiercely as ever, telephone operators continued to insult callers, and the prostitutes on the Champs-Elysées went right on spitting "Papa" at anyone over 20 who rejected their blandishments. "Ah, well," murmured Psychologist Ranville, "perhaps we'll create a new spirit in the younger generation...
...Sorbonne and wrote the book in a month." Asked how her daddy, a happily married Paris manufacturer, felt about the autobiographical air of Bonjour-a. first-person, intimate chronicle of a young girl who lives cozily with her father and his sundry mistresses -Françoise gasped: "Oh, poor Papa!". Chimed in her sister Suzanne, along on the trip: "But no!, Papa would be flattered...
...What discipline!" says Charles-Hubert (papa) when he sees a Wehrmacht brass band. "After all, they're human beings too," says Julie (mama). Julie, who met Charles-Hubert at a bargain counter where "their hands clasped over a pair of socks at a reduced price," is a kind of Clausewitz of the cash register. Her axiom: wars are long and rations get short. The Poissonards stock the Bon Beurre fore and aft. Tins of ham as big as ox livers prop up the conjugal bed. Sausages hang thick as stalactites from the ceiling. On the floors stand wheels...
...customers are not only mercilessly fleeced (watered milk, tapped scales) but also lectured on the virtues of the Germans, the vices of the French, the cunning treachery of the Jews. Papa Poissonard is a happy man: "He had found the means to be systematically dishonest, that dream of all honest people, and . . . felt not in the least ashamed...