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...Barnaby Baxter is a five-year-old who has dreamed up a fairy godfather named Jackeen J. O'Malley. O'Malley's round figure is no taller than Barnaby's, is equipped with two small wings and a magic wand in the form of a fat cigar. O'Malley is a thoroughgoing Micawber-type fraud who never brings off his constantly promised miracles, but never alienates his small disciple's faith in him. O'Malley's companions are: 1) Atlas the Mental Giant, a bull-necked gnome who computes all problems...
...Mental Giant are brought to bear. Gorgon père is finally discovered to be the nameless, galumphing coach hound of the local fire department. But that slobbering, fragrant beast has no vocabulary other than "Arf," is a parasitic icebox-crasher to boot. He refuses to move off the Baxter's porch rocker until frightened by the word "bath...
Children, Too. In other episodes, Barnaby and Mr. O'Malley hunt lions which are found to be only too real when a circus big cat escapes and holes up in the Baxter cellar. They aid Atlas the Mental Giant in a staggering plan to divide up the postwar world ("xVrP2+a" ∆x2y >13 It comes out wrong"). They foil black-market desperados through O'Malley's pretended attempt to repair the carburetor of the getaway...
...greatly. I speak in reference to your repeated comments about military strategy for World War III. I certainly am not interested in participating in any future war and believe that, if we are to plan an enduring peace, TIME should not entertain its readers with such "potential propaganda." (PFC.) BAXTER S. SCRUGGS Fort Huachuca, Ariz...
...Italy last week killed a terrific character. Frederick Schiller Faust, 51, was serving as correspondent for Harper's. But "Heinie" Faust was, more notably, the incredibly prolific "King of the Pulps" who wrote westerns, romances, whodunits and cinema stories under the pseudonyms Max Brand, David Manning, George Owen Baxter, Evan Evans, Nicholas Silver, Hugh Owen, Frank Austin, George Challis, Walter C. Butler, John Frederick, Peter Henry Moreland, Lee Bolt, Dennis Lawton, Frederick Frost. Among his creations were Hollywood's Drs. Kildare and Gillespie, Horseman Destry, Secret Agent Anthony Hamilton, Silvertip the Outlaw...