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...need not ponder the imponderables to discover what lies behind Haiti's stunning poverty, its stagnation, and the withdrawal of American money. The answer is easy: Dr. Francois Duvalier, self-declared president of Haiti for life, the notorious "Papa...
Despite predictions to the contrary. Dave Newmark--the 7-0 papa Lion--started in the pivot. Favoring his injured ankle, Newmark got into early foul trouble, and was not a major physical factor, although he might have had some psychological influence in the victory...
...there for a game of shinny," he says, "and it was up to the first arrivals to clear a skating area." By the time Bobby was eight, recalls Dr. Don Pringle, a childhood friend who now practices medicine in Montreal, "he had muscles rippling all over him," and Papa Hull was already spending hours on the ice, endlessly drilling his son on the technique of stick handling. "He was sometimes impatient," says Bobby, "but he liked to skate with me. 'Let's try it again, Robert,' he would say. 'Keep your head up. If the stick...
Treatments & Trips. This year's most noticeable category in nonfiction is the literary biography, notably Andrew Turnbull's Thomas Wolfe and Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway (Papa is also the subject of Irwin Blacker's novel, Standing on a Drum). Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, Lytton Strachey, Richard Wright, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nathanael West, André Gide and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also get full-length treatment; and there will be an autobiography from André Malraux, a second volume of Bertrand Russell memories, and a third of Harold Nicolson diaries...
...almost won a Brigitte Bardot look-alike contest at 12. Now 19, Portland has made her London acting debut in a revival of Oscar Wilde's A Woman of No Importance, playing-of all things-a puritanical little prig. The critics thought she was splendid, and so did Papa James, who announced that henceforth "my ambition is to be known as Portland's father...