Word: papas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Papa Herrera died, Luis gave up prosecuting for paint. He says with emotion: "My father made me lose so many years! But my health is very good. The life of the artist in Chile is miserable. Luckily my father left me enough so I don't have to be a poor artist. It is also good that I never had a teacher. I paint as I like...
King George, Queen Elizabeth, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose, in a short holiday at Windsor Castle, found an out-of-season use for the Princesses' private swimming pool (see cut). Papa pumped...
...Quarter for drinking Modigliani under the table; his fondness for this potent Italian apéritif still remains unabated. In 1925, disguised as Ashton-Wolfe of the Sûreté, he took to frequenting the milieu, the sinister district centering about the rue de Lappe. As 'Papa' Thernardier, he organized the gang that stole a towel from the Hotel Claridge and defaced the blotters at the American Express Co. A démarche from the Quai d'Orsay shortly forced him to flee Paris...
...surpassingly better picture. Its horror is compounded by its setting: an exquisitely commonplace family in a familiar small California town. Mama (Patricia Collinge) is a fluttery hen whose family has become too much for her. The kids have begun to read novels and spout homilies to their parents. Papa (Henry Travers) and his crony (Hume Cronyn) are detective-story fans who get together every night after supper to trade amiable schemes for murdering each other. And daughter (Teresa Wright) is at the moonstruck age when she cannot bear the family's dullness a moment longer...
...born in 1864 in Hoboken, N.J. Said Stieglitz last week: "What is important is that I was conceived April 1, 1863." Seven years later his father, a successful wool merchant, moved the family to Manhattan. When Alfred was 17 Papa Stieglitz packed him off to Germany to become an engineer. In Berlin young Alfred fell for photography...