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Last week, when young Patrick replaced Boucher, there were some who were still saying that he was helped by being the "boss's son." It was no secret that Frank Boucher, who starred on Lester Patrick's first 1926 six, had been on the outs with papa Patrick. As vice president and a substantial stockholder in the Garden (which owns the Rangers), Lester Patrick was obviously in a position to make it tough for Boucher. But Boucher insisted that the change was his idea, not Lester Patrick's. The job of manager-coach was just...
Said he: "If I play a blue note, I'll frown at the other musicians the way I do when I conduct. Then people won't know I was the one who made the mistake." As it turned out, no one had to frown, least of all "Papa" Monteux. Said he, when it was all over: "There's nothing like that. A quartet is the most pure music-just pure, pure, pure. It's not all messed up with orchestrations...
...Port-au-Prince last week, peasants were singing: "Estimé, c'est bon papa; he makes his people step ahead." The pro-government papers printed flowery poems of praise, in which every pronoun referring to Estimé was capitalized. To at least one Haitian, that was carrying things too far. Snorted waggish Senator Alphonse Henríquez: "Another Christophe! Another Toussaint L'Ouverture! Another Jesus Christ! . . . Hell! A motor in a pair...
...stooge he had got elected, did not intend to be a stooge. Argüello began calling on Guardia officers to declare their loyalty to him. Almost half of them did. Then Argüello overreached himself: he gave Tachito Somoza a dressing down, banished him from the capital. Papa Tacho moved in. Argüello fled to the Mexican embassy, then to Mexico, where he died. Growled Tacho, who finally decided that Uncle Victor Román y Reyes was a safe man for the presidential palace: "Some day I may meet Argüello in hell, and then...
Once, when an internal revenue man came around to question him, suspicious of the number of exemptions he claimed, Papa Conway discovered that he had forgotten one; instead of paying more, he got a credit...