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...better dig alone. Sheikie, "the famous child toe-dancer" of St. Agatha's, has degenerated into Sheila Artworth, a real estate broker's wife whose hair is now bluer than her blood. Mumbo, the skinny, frizzy-headed intellectual of the trio, has ballooned into Miss Clare Burkin-Jones, the burly, beturbaned boss of a London gift shop. But these distortions are nothing compared with the heightened powers of bitchery the little girls have acquired...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Tells of Childhood | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

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