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...last week blonde Clara Jo Proudfoot, 4, of Miami called on the President of the United States. Born with an imperfectly closed spine (spina bifida) and paralyzed from the waist down, Clara Jo was promoting the Easter Seal drive of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. As he saw the little girl laboriously making her way into his office on heavy steel braces and pink crutches that matched her well-starched dress, the President uttered an involuntary gasp. He started toward the girl as if to pick her up and carry her to his desk, then checked himself...
...Clara Jo had a sheaf of Easter Seals and a lapel pin; for Clara Jo's cause Ike had $5, and for her stuffed dachshund he had an autograph. Pulling open a drawer of his desk, the President looked at the contents and remarked, "I'm afraid most of these things are for boys." (Actually, many of them are for the President, e.g., half a dozen bottles of assorted potions and pills.) But he found an 1890 (the year of his birth) silver dollar and a white ballpoint pen for the girl, and a penknife for her eleven...
RICHARD J. QUINLAN Santa Clara, Calif...
...Died. Clara Savage Littledale, 64, perky editor of Parents' Magazine (circ. 1,643,000, largest in its field) since its founding in 1926, who crusaded for better pay for teachers, school lunches, improved health exams for children and more thorough care and training for mothers; after, long illness; in Manhattan...
...Direct Approach. In Culver City, Calif, officials in the Department of Motor Vehicles agreed that Mrs. Clara Lee Gildreth would have to try again to get her driver's license-after she pulled in for a road test, hurtled the curb, punched through the side of the building, crashed into the license-application counter...