Word: papas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like head; it is not yet completely written down). From Brahms's massive skull came four symphonies, from Tchaikovsky's high crown six, from Beethoven's shaggy pate nine. Mozart's wonderfully broad forehead gave out no less than 41. But when tough old Joseph ("Papa'') Haydn sat down at the age of 72 to catalogue his works, he could shake his egg-shaped head till it nearly cracked, but he could not for the life of him remember all those nice symphonies he had written. Their authenticated number...
...famed Boston Symphony had announced a "concert extraordinaire." Manhattan concertgoers could see that something was up when 18th-Century ushers led them to their seats. When Boston's stiff-necked orchestra appeared in silk stockings and periwigs with Conductor Koussevitzky himself got up as Franz Joseph ("Papa") Haydn, they began to catch on. Without batting an eye, poker-faced Koussevitzky led his men through Haydn's rococo whimsey, bowed gravely, pinched out his candle and left the stage...
Died. Henri Anatole ("Papa") Deibler, 76, wealthy perfumer, who as "Monsieur de Paris" (traditional name for France's executioner) pressed the button at more than 400 guillotinings in his 40-year career; of a cold; in Paris. As well-known to French newspaper readers as Edouard Daladier, "Papa" Deibler was latest of a 68-year-long line of Deibler-executioners. He rarely appeared in public except in his official capacity, traveled incognito in a private compartment. Few days after his death, his 80-year-old uncle, Leopold Desfourneaux, was appointed his temporary successor, to execute one Maurice Pelorge, murderer...
There is no logical reason to believe that Hitler would act any differently if he were a happy husband and father, when the normal domestic claims have not taken the sting out of Papa Goebbels or made of Papa Goring the ideal Santa Claus for 1938. Sorry, girls, but when it comes to dictators, you just don't seem to make much headway. EDWARD T. MCNAMARA...
Last autumn they decided to go to the U. S. Traveling all together in a specially chartered bus, Papa von Trapp, Mama von Trapp and the seven young singing von Trapps barnstormed the Middle West and South, surprised many a gas-station attendant with their dirndl dresses and Lederhosen. Last week they wound up in Manhattan, singing a program of Renaissance music and Austrian folk songs at Town Hall. Manhattan critics found their singing the last word in freshness and refinement...