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Blandford, an Assistant Budget Director, is leathery, square-faced, married, childless. At 44 he is a veteran administrator. As general manager of TVA for six years, he helped bring order out of confusion. Mr. Roosevelt called him an "amazing executive...
...twins. After they have been secretly rescued from their parents' burning castle, a friendly 19th-Century medico (H. B. Warner) severs their bond of flesh, dispatches one (Lucien) to live with a family retainer among Corsican bandits, the other (Mario) to Paris in the care of a wealthy, childless couple...
...Sept. 24, 1841, James Brooke became Raja of Sarawak. An English adventurer in the service of the East India Company, at the age of 21 Jamie Brooke had been wounded in a battle in the Brahmaputra valley, mutilated and doomed to a childless future. Unable to marry, he took to the sea, which he said "wants nothing but a gallant heart from her lover." He put into Blidah Fort, Borneo, helped suppress a rebellion against a Malay prince, wound up by becoming absolute monarch of 50,000 square miles of viciously virginal jungle in northwest Borneo...
Self-revealed, Leske is: 1) a mental twelve-year-old with a craving for speed and action; 2) a childless adolescent who had no sex experience until some time after he had been destroying other men's children; 3) a pulp-paper brain which listens only to the war communiqués on the radio, hates music, has to make an effort even to read the recollections of German War Ace Fritz Udet; 4) a cultural blank registering only the slogans of the Nazi leaders; 5) a historical illiterate knowing nothing about the history of other countries...
...carefree way in which the reporter, Roger Adams (Mr. Grant), and the music-store salesgirl, Julie (Miss Dunne), inaugurate their marriage is blasted by a Tokyo earthquake which injures her and leaves them facing a childless future. They return to the States, where Roger buys a small-town newspaper. Their life together is unhappily aimless until they adopt an orphaned infant and encounter the problems of parenthood...