Word: papas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...card-playing Papa Gershwin, Morris Carnovsky blends humility, humor and awesome respect for his gifted son. ("How nice you write it out, Georgie, such black ink," he says, examining in uncomprehending wonder George's first musical manuscript.) Herbert Rudley and Albert Basserman underplay with moving simplicity the difficult roles of a retiring, satellite brother and a music teacher distrustful of Mammon's claims on his favorite pupil. Oscar Levant, as himself, needs no acting skill to project his practiced cockiness, but respect for his late friend in real life has given his comic relief performance an unexpected depth...
Interesting but unconfirmed reports from Europe last week: papa. Last fortnight the Russians found evidence that he and Eva Braun, long his housemate, married just before Berlin fell. Stockholm rumormongers heard that they had two children -a son five years old, a daughter four years...
...Papa's Boys by Day. Says Colonel Sandier: "The personality structure of the somnambulist is that of the overprotected, babied adult. . . . Somnambulism, in its essence, represents to the sleepwalker an attempt to escape from threatening dangers...
...onetime New Dealer, in 1940 he denounced Franklin Roosevelt's "trust papa" theory of government...
...Germans shot him dead in cold blood outside the church. We saw the two daughters. One was about 16, the other about 14, and they spoke with animated excitement in curiously high-school French that didn't change tone or pitch when they said: 'They shot papa. He died right away...