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...them all as they came out of Buster's, shaking hands, exchanging greetings--Milton Battiste, Kid Sheik, Andy Anderson, Papa Glass. "Say, man," Sheik said, "this is gettin' to be more like a party or something than a funeral...
...decisive eleventh came up, and the Niemans were ready. Paul "Papa" Houston it a pop which the CRIMSON dropped. Paul "Pro" Hemphill smacked a zinger to left. That left it up to Jon "Jugs" Yardley, who creamed a sweet pitch deep to Conigliaro country. Conigliaro being absent, the CRIMSON caught the ball after much melodrama, and then from shortstop. There was much argument with plate umpire Adam Yarmolinsky, but the CRIMSON lost...
...kept remarrying. Instead of getting his work done, he was forever playing at great white hunter or bravebull aficionado or none-too-accurate war correspondent. When Ernest the Bad did write, the crisp sentences came out flabby, self-parodying. Finally, he turned himself from writer into public figure: "Papa," the self-indulgent joker whom his embarrassed admirers couldn't drag offstage and back to his Ernest-the-Good writing desk...
...Papa's Pocket Rubens. Hemingway was almost as hard on the women in his life. With considerable literary license, he transmogrified some of the girls he admired into famous fictional characters. Agnes von Kurowsky, his World War I nurse, became Catherine in A Farewell to Arms; a hard-drinking English aristocrat, Lady Duff Twysden, turned up as Lady Brett in The Sun Also Rises; the aging colonel's lissome contessa in Across the River and Into the Trees is a highly romanticized version of 19-year-old Adriana Ivancich, an Italian beauty whom the Hemingways knew in Venice...
...World War II. She complained that he took too few baths-and besides, she had her own career as novelist and journalist to follow. Hemingway classified her with his mother, whom he condemned as "a domineering shrew." Baker appears to stand discreetly in awe of Mary Hemingway (called "Papa's Pocket Rubens" by her husband), who stood by him from...