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Persuading Papa. Eddy Gilbert (né Ginsberg) was a plunger. At 27, angered by his father's refusal to make him a director of the family-controlled Empire Millwork Corp., he quit the company and started his own hardwood flooring business. Whithin four years he could point to annual sales of $250,000, and persuaded papa to buy him out for 20,000 shares of Empire stock. Then, armed with his stake and an Empire directorship, he began to move in on E.L. Bruce...
...history. Osbert. who earlier dealt exhaustively with all his relatives in his autobiography Left Hand, Right Hand!, has now found that its five stout volumes were not enough. Tales My Father Taught Me, the latest entry in this sibling revelry, is an afterpiece entirely devoted to his patrician papa...
...fought Nazi submarines from a fishing boat. It began: "The wind had blown heavily for more than fifty days but now it had dropped off." Mary Hemingway had removed some of the profanity beforehand. After March finished, she sighed: "It was typical of the sort of thing that Papa did so well...
...Papa Joe hasn't the dough to buy up control of the steel industry and fire those greedy, power-hungry executives who displeased his boys...
...Editors at Scribner's are now sniffing over one of the longer works - reminiscences of Paris in the '20s. They, and she, will decide whether Hemingway fans are to have or have not. "I am bajo sus órdenes - under Papa's orders," she said...