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...Royal Canadians' favorite fan is Mama Lombardo, who now lives in Connecticut and never misses a broadcast or a record. Papa Lombardo, who once sang at church socials in Ontario, has never yet really come around. Once, after a broadcast, Guy phoned and asked him how he liked it. Papa muttered noncommittally. When Guy pressed him, he finally snapped : "If you're looking for compliments, I'll put your mother...
...prints and genre scenes had sold like hotcakes in the mid-19th Century. The other was slender, sad-eyed Alfred, his 62-year-old bachelor son, who painted hard-to-sell pictures of elongated, wistful shop girls and abstractions of heads and still lifes that were anything but traditional. Papa Maurer's show was a huge success to which son Alfy's was little more than a half-noticed footnote...
...kidneys make me very sore at night. What shall I do?" "Big old fool," snapped Réal, "I am fed up. You have a cancer." He ran from the room shouting to his father: "We are going to have 700 cars Sunday. Money will come in, eh, Papa?" Papa pulled the boy back into the room. Réal then told the woman to pray. As she left, she put a $10 bill in the center of the table...
...City, after investigating the children and finding "no miraculous event was verified," Archbishop Maurice Roy issued a statement: "We remind all the faithful they must abstain from such superstitious practices. We ask particularly that priests . . . do nothing that would seem to encourage this so-called devotion." Through the newspapers Papa Bélanger quickly announced that his house henceforth was closed to visitors...
...kiss, papa...