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Died. Oscar ("Papa") Celestin, seventyish, oldtime hot trumpeter of New Orleans jazz, best loved in his home town of all the great Negro jazz musicians; of cancer; in New Orleans. At Papa's funeral, more than a thousand friends and ad mirers turned out while two bands of fellow jazzmen played dirges in the two-mile procession to the church...
Only one American, winner of the prize for literature, did not show up: Author Ernest Hemingway (TIME, Dec. 13) remained in Cuba, nursing the aches and breaks he got early this year in two African plane crashes. But Papa had sent a stirring message, which was read for him by the U.S. Ambassador to Sweden. After apologizing for "having no facility for speech-making and no command of oratory nor any domination of rhetoric...
...Pilar, early in World War II when Hemingway and the Pilar cruised the Caribbean hunting for enemy submarines. And even if there are no guests, there is always the long-distance phone, which may carry the husky voice of Marlene Dietrich, calling to talk over a problem with "Papa...
Suddenly Gregorio cries out: "Feesh! Papa, feesh...
...Normandy breakthrough, Schnee Eifel, the Hiirtgen Forest bloodletting and the defense of Luxembourg. Gathering 200 French irregulars around him, he negotiated huge allotments of ammunition and alcohol and assisted in the liberation of Paris. Hemingway personally liberated the Ritz Hotel, posted a guard below to notify incoming friends: "Papa took good hotel. Plenty stuff in cellar." Commander of the Chain. The postwar Hemingway settled into another good hotel, the Gritti in Venice, to write "the big book" about World War II (a draft is now finished). But a piece of gun wadding went into his eye during a duck hunt...