Word: papas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musical Busches got their bent from their father, a German shepherd who became a violinist and a violin-maker. He started Fritz at the piano and Adolf on a violin when each was four. "We made music all day, from eight in the morning until midnight," says Fritz. Papa Busch concluded proudly that both Fritz and Adolf had perfect pitch when they identified a locomotive's whistle as F sharp...
From now on, explained a Palace spokesman, the Princesses will "live the lives of two young girls." Elizabeth, who now has her own apartment at the Palace, likes helping Papa and Mama entertain. At Palace parties, the King loves to lead a conga line. Every fifth dance he dutifully foxtrots or waltzes with the Queen...
Adolf Hitler, looking for all the world like a proud papa, turned up in the photograph album of Eva Braun, his stock preferred blonde, whom he supposedly married the day before they died together in burning Berlin. Dozens of family-style snapshots, some of them cosily captioned "And here is Uschi again," showed Adolf and Eva with a baby girl whose latest picture indicated that she was about three. One picture (see cut) seemed to indicate that Adolf had two little bastards. But the Army said no; it had evidence that the Kinder belonged to Eva's sister. Fritz...
...fickleness, Guy Lombardo had made himself America's No. 1 longtime dance-band leader by merchandising a product as dependable and uninspired as a metronome. Lombardo still has eight of the nine men he started with in London, Ont. in 1923. Three of the band are his brothers. Papa Lombardo, Italian-born, was a tailor who bought musical instruments for his kids. Guy, now 43, and sleekly handsome, started on the violin, now just stands in front of the band. Brother Carmen, 42, plays sax, and Brother Lebert, 41, the trumpet. Their first dates were at Lake Erie summer...
Some of the secondary characters, such as music publisher Max Dreyfuss (Charles Coburn), and one of Gershwin's teachers (Albert Basserman), have been carefully reduced to outworn types. In these cases Dreyfuss represents the lure of financial success, and the old teacher stands for true art. Conversely, Papa Gershwin (Morris Carnovsky) has had his personal eccentricities exaggerated to the bursting point. There is no consistency in the incongruity...