Word: papas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Giuseppe Di Maggio, 67, father of Ball players Joe, Dominic, Vince, was officially barred from Son Joe's waterfront restaurant, only a few hundred yards from the Di Maggio home. Reason: the restaurant stands in a defense zone, and unnaturalized Papa Giuseppe is classed as an "enemy alien...
Patricia Hitchcock, twelve-year-old daughter of Cinedirector Alfred, looked forward to a Broadway debut, but declared: "I don't have any ambitions to be in the movies, ever." Papa said he had no ambition to direct...
When Mrs. Ross went to interview the 99-year-old sage of Baker, Ore., she was introduced: "Papa, here's Nancy Ross come to see you from New York. Not Betsy, but her niece." The old man took one look at her nail polish and said: "Terrible wounded in every finger...
Ambassador Litvinoff's genial old billikin face turned purple. His snowy-haired English wife, Ivy Litvinoff, confusedly asked: "Are we going, papa?" As the plane loaded with Britons took off without the Litvinoffs, it was apparent that a first-class diplomatic incident had occurred...
...Yehudi's youngest sister, eloped to Reno from her parents' home in Los Gatos, Calif., with Private Benjamin Rolfe, 27. Yaltah, who divorced Attorney William Stix last year, soon parted with her groom who returned to Fort Ord to be tossed into the guardhouse for going AWOL. Papa Menuhin withheld his blessing, explained: "It will take time to swallow and digest the news." Private Rolfe, unabashed and "utterly unmusical," declared: "There is enough musical genius in that family already...