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...Once she got up near to him outside the ballpark and fainted. In her diary she wrote: "Phils are losing. I bet it's none of Eddie's fault," and on the same page, "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you." Papa Steinhagen, a no-nonsense die-setter and father of another, less emotional daughter, got fed up with all the foolishness. Ruth's folks sent her to a psychiatrist but she went only once, and it didn't do any good. Indignant at Papa's ways, Ruth flounced...
...want to travel around the country," said Artist O'Brady. "Also I'll have to visit Evanston. Papa-he's 84 now-is still spouting steam because I'm a painter." In Evanston, Gertrude O'Brady would be remembered as a blonde girl named McBrady (she modified her name to make it easier for the French to pronounce). Now, at 43, she sometimes fumbles English words, her braids are red instead of blonde, and she has made art-loving Paris take her work and like...
...James family had a rare talent for striking up acquaintances with ghosts. In 1844, when Novelist-to-be Henry James was a year old, his genial papa, Henry Sr., was scared into "a perfectly insane and abject terror" by a shape squatting invisibly before him. For two years the elder James searched for relief from his fearful visitation, tried everything from water cures to cheerful company, eventually found peace only in the esoteric mysticism of Swedish Philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg...
Susan Peters is the college president's daughter who is in love with her chemistry professor. Naturally, papa is quite upsot when his promising young chem researcher runs off to win a ponnant; but, inevitably the national pastime catches up with even the most erudite--girl friend, mother, finally papa himself all become ardent St. Louis fans...
...Papa belong me fella, stop on top; name belong You he tabu...