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After 17 years of drawing that freckle-faced urchin Dennis the Menace from a penthouse in Geneva, Cartoonist Hank Ketcham is going home to California. The cost of living on the Continent became too steep for Ketcham, 56, who first sketched the kid with the cowlick in 1951. Gripes he: "I don't mind paying nine Swiss francs for a jar of something labeled beurre d'arachide crémeux. But when you figure out that it means $3.75 for a jar of Skippy Creamy Peanut Butter, it's ridiculous." Ketcham also feared that...
...White House to conduct a service-with no secrecy at all -on Nixon's first Sunday as President. Graham's regular hymn singer, George Beverly Shea, was there, along with 200 guests, mainly drawn from the Cabinet and Nixon's staff. White House Curator James Ketcham confessed: "I've never heard of anything like it happening here before...
...parental rejection of children who were not wanted in the first place. "Much social work in this area," she said, "is picking up the pieces instead of going to the roots of the matter-that is, granting the mother the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy." Judge Orman Ketcham of the District of Columbia Juvenile Court reported that "most of the juveniles who come before me were unwanted children...
...juvenile-court system has developed some outstanding judges. Colorado's Ben B. Lindsey, the famous advocate of "companionate marriage" who died in 1943, spent four decades introducing numerous reforms, such as a Colorado law forbidding the charging of children under 16 with crime. Juvenile Judge Orman W. Ketcham, of Washington, D.C., a faculty member of the current summer college, has campaigned for years for stronger legal safeguards for children. Justine Wise Polier, for 32 years a justice in New York's family courts, has written books advocating a more compassionate approach to juvenile problems...
...Both Worlds. Last March the Supreme Court gave warning of its attitude in a decision that applied only to the District of Columbia. Accused of rape, robbery and housebreaking, Morris A. Kent Jr., 16, had been under the "exclusive jurisdiction" of Washington's Juvenile Court Judge Orman W. Ketcham. Instead, the boy was tried as an adult, given a 30-to-90-year sentence. The Supreme Court ruled that Judge Ketcham had wrongly "waived" jurisdiction without giving Kent counsel, hearing or explanation...