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...September day in 1938, Papa David Solomon of NBC's Life Can Be Beautiful gave shelter in his secondhand bookstore to a teen-age slum girl named Chichi and put her to bed on a pallet in the rear of his shop. This week, 15 years later, Chichi is only about five years older and she is still camped in Papa David's back room...
...Koreans. The courage of the South Koreans was a different kind: to G.I.s it seemed not sacrificial, not fanatical, but resigned. One bearded old "Papa-san" of the Korean Service Corps "choo-gied" mortar ammunition up one hill, then caught a bullet in his chest as he was starting back down the trail for more. He lay by the mortar position, blood leaking from his chest, and passed shells to the shorthanded mortar crew as he died. Each time the tube fired, the old man muttered a Korean word, but the Americans on the mortar never knew what...
Penelope's papa was a Church of England clergyman "of a type now nearly extinct, low church, bigoted, and opposed to every kind of enjoyment." Ecclesiastes was his Bible; when Penelope spoke to a stranger, her father rebuked her in his own didactic paraphrases, saying: "If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly." He refused her a piano ("Wine and music will rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both") and kept her from the village fair ("Who so taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned...
...Papa has been pouring out music around New Orleans practically all his life, and is proud of it. During a summer concert not long ago, he stepped to the microphone to make his point: "Will all of you who danced to my music ten years ago please stand?" Most of the audience rose. Then Papa called for those who first danced to his music 20 years ago. Many stood. Across three, four and finally five decades, Papa carried his question. And even at the last, a few oldtimers stood. That kind of reminder took the edge off the fact that...
Serious jazz fans have to admit that Papa has his limitations. He has plenty of talent, but he was never a Louis Armstrong, a King Oliver or even a Bunk Johnson. Those performers had jet flights of imagination as they improvised on their horns. Papa is a groundling, but for those who accept him as such, he remains a steady, sturdy pillar...