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...this, as in most other respects, Nikita Khrushchev's style is more bourgeois than Borgia. His only son Sergei is a bespectacled engineer who shuns the limelight the way Papa relishes it. What really interests Sergei Nikitovich Khrushchev is butterflies and home movies...
What with wooing and wowing businessmen, preaching to preachers, ringing in Oscar Wilde as a press critic, stamping on poverty, playing proud papa to a queen, and pulling his dogs' ears, Lyndon Johnson had another wingding week...
...certainly don't owe much to her old man. And that is just how Jeanne Modigliani, 45, likes it. "Had my name not been Modigliani I would have started painting years ago," said she. In fact, the only thing the twice-married Parisian artist has in common with Papa Amedeo is her painting signature, which is almost identical. But that is enough. Visiting in Israel to set up her first major solo show next month, she offered eight small works for sale. Within two hours all were snapped up for $100 to $150 each. Yet the lady still protests...
...Ernest Hemingway left behind an invitation to laugh with him amid the scenes of his youth, where he was happier than he would ever be again. Almost, it seems like a last-minute appeal from a man who suddenly felt himself trapped in his own latter-day legend as "Papa...
Back in Town? The new bend in the road describes a full circle, taking Rube Goldberg back to where he started 59 years ago, when the comic pages, Rube's natural habitat, were still good for a thousand laughs. They did not amuse Papa Max Goldberg, though. He had read about an engineer who made $1,500,000, and he thought that his son should do the same. Rube tried. He got a degree in mining engineering and for a few months listlessly designed sewer pipes for the city of San Francisco...