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...came next morning; I gave him a chocolate bar and we had a long talk. His name was Dietrich. He was eight. He wore clean but patched clothes, was lean as a wolf and just about as quick. He spent a lot of time around the press camp, particularly in front of the enlisted men's mess, picking up butts. "My mother smokes the long ones and we exchange the others for potatoes," he explained seriously...
King of the Cocos. In London, the youngest, strangest royal D.P. of all packed his own bags. He was John Clunies-Ross V, 19, King of the Cocos Islands (TIME, June 11). Ross V has the lean, long countenance of his Scottish seafaring ancestors. His brother favors their Malayan grandmother (a royal Sulu princess in her own right). Their sister manages to look like both of them...
Many a city-born G.I. has yearned for a postwar farm. But agricultural wiseacres have warned that farming is no business for amateurs, G.I.s or otherwise. Lean, blond Peter Farrell Hudson, 36, medically discharged from the Army a year ago, disregarded such warnings. He settled in Nebraska's rolling North Platte valley, good land for wheat, corn and oats, dreamed of changing it into one mammoth, highly profitable truck garden. But Hudson had no luck when he tried to get a loan under the G.I. bill to start farming. Finally defeated by red tape, he went to work...
Bloody Baron. Inner Mongolia is the lean twin (some 300,000 sq. mi.) of Outer Mongolia (some 900,000 sq. mi.). In pre-World War I days Outer Mongolia, with its less-than-one-million lama-ruled herds men, was nominally a part of China, actually a Tsarist protectorate...
...Angeles' Burbank Theater was known to the trade as a "hoodoo house" when a lean, sandy-haired, 23-year-old manager named Oliver Mitchell took it over in 1899. Weaned in the theater as a "top stander" in a family acrobatic act called The Three Moroscos, Oliver assumed the name Morosco. He struck out for himself at the age of twelve, became assistant manager of a theater at 16. At 35, in the Burbank, he produced a musical hit, The Bird of Paradise...