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Like a proud papa recounting the feats of his offspring, the Communist organ L'Humanité* ticked off the high spots of 20 days of anti-American activity in France. Item: at Revel, in Haute-Garonne, "300 peasants tore up surveyors' markers at a new military airbase." Item: at Saint-Quentin, "youth made a fire of joy out of the tracts and brochures of the [American] occupation." Item: at Toulouse, "street parades against the arrival of munitions . . . from across the Atlantic...
...father, John Doud-a prosperous meat packer who retired from business in Boone, Iowa to leisure in a big house in Denver at the age of 36-did not oppose this female whimsy. But he was firm on the subject of Sunday afternoon tours in his Packard twin-six. "Papa," Mamie's sister Mabel recalls, "was dreadful. We all had to go." As a result, one afternoon in 1915, when the family was wintering in San Antonio, Mamie was bundled off on a drive to Fort Sam Houston. Then & there, she met her husband...
More than 1000 students jammed New Lecture Hall last night to attend the most popular course of the year-a one night stand by Pogo's papa, Walt Kelly...
...farmstead named Allesverloren (Everything Is Lost), which snuggled among the soaring mountains and vine-garlanded valleys of West Cape Province. In his parents' devout household, the rule was "Thou Shalt Not." Each evening "Danie" and his younger brother Fanie were called indoors to hear spade-bearded Papa Malan reading from his family Bible to his black servants...
...Papa Malan had intended his elder son to take over the farm. In accordance with Boer tradition, he earmarked for the future master a fine riding horse. Curled up with a book, Danie didn't even go to the stable to see which horse was his. "You'll never be a farmer," sighed Papa Malan...