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...Think of Papa." Into the case swarmed more than 60 New York detectives, who questioned 1,000 people, including patients at the nearby U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, where promising Resident Surgeon Nimer began work two months before. But nothing clicked. No motive appeared; the house was not robbed, and how the prowler entered was unclear. Questioned repeatedly, little Dean told conflicting versions of the sequence of events. Some cops were struck by the boy's unusual intelligence, others by his consistent lack of emotion. ("My mother and father's dead," he told one cop after the tragedy...
...suspect. He had made three separate "statements" ("I stabbed Dad first, then Mom"). He had planned the parricide, he said, while lying in bed several nights before. On the night of the crime, police said, Dean read an article in the Mormon magazine Era entitled, "I Think of Papa." It was illustrated by gnarled hands peeling an apple with a knife, ended: "How priceless is the memory of a good father." Dean left his Boy Scout knife folded inside Era, then went to bed. Later, he told police, he stole downstairs for a kitchen knife, crept back up and killed...
...month, when Paris Presse's Reporter Jean Larteguy visited Bigeard's school in search of material for a series on "the sickness of the French army," the outspoken colonel gave him an earful. Dismissing General Raoul Salan, commander of French forces in Algeria, with the mocking nickname "Papa" Salan, old Noncom Bigeard hammered away at his favorite thesis: "The staff officers want to run a staff war when really this is a noncom's war . . . The colonels must march with their men, not circle overhead in helicopters while the poor wretches sweat it out in the hills...
Author Ernest Hemingway was bull-mad. Esquire magazine angered him by proposing to reprint three Hemingway stories about the Spanish civil war without his O.K. Then his own Manhattan lawyer added to Papa's fury by implying in court that the Old Man of the Plea did not want the stories in print because they favored the Red-backed Spanish Loyalists. Rumbled Papa: "I gave him hell for it. I have not changed my attitude about the Spanish civil war. I was for the Loyalists, and I still feel that way about the Loyalists." Actually, explained Hemingway, the stories...
...teen-agers in semiformal dress, spilled from the parlor to the patio, swirled around the skating rink, tennis courts and swimming pool. The two Diligenti boys in tuxedos and the three girls in white tulle gracefully acknowledged congratulations on their 15th birthday, the coming-out age in Argentina. Beamed papa Diligenti to Family Dr. Carlos Montagna: "We did a damned good...