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...Papa was already the father of six, but overjoyed at the news. "Oh, my dear darling wife!" said he, "we haven't had one for ages. I love babies." Mamma, who had to run the household on 250 francs a month, said coldly: "So you're glad for me to bring another poor wretch into the world?" And Papa replied: "Of course I'm glad. It'll be a boy this time, he'll be born in 1900, beginning his life with a world's fair...
...next 15 years, Irene lived as Papa L.B. had planned. Hollywood knew her as a pleasant hostess and mother (of Jeffrey, 15, and Daniel, 11). What Hollywood did not know was that Irene had been quietly studying a variety of subjects, such as architecture, painting, medicine, psychology, sociology-and show business...
Phil Murray did not like to see his scrappy brood of C.I.O. kids kick each other around. But Papa Phil could not have been very displeased at some of last week's infighting. Some of the C.I.O.'s Red-eyed bully boys-whom he does not like-were getting their lumps...
...Viva il Papa!" roared the crowd, and knelt on the cobbled square to receive the Easter apostolic blessing...
...half-Ways and Means, Family Album, Red Peppers (this week: Hands Across the Sea, Fumed Oak, Shadow Play). Ways and Means, telling about a stony-broke but determinedly gay couple visiting in a stylish Riviera villa, and Family Album, in which a Victorian family drink themselves out of mourning Papa's death into welcoming it, had always seemed pretty trivial. But last week they also seemed pretty trashy, and not much fun. Only Red Peppers, an onstage-backstage-onstage chronicle of a pair of bickering, third-rate British hoofers, retained any real life or laughter...