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...further result of the Pusan story, the citizens of at least one city are embarked on a group effort. At the home of TIME-reader Louisa Boyd Gile, poetess and wife of a retired Army major, some 30 key citizens of La Jolla, Calif, met to set up relief plans for the world's needy and neglected children. The group will center its initial efforts on arousing the interest of local civic groups, plans to spend the first money it raises on school rehabilitation kits and tents to substitute for bombed-out school buildings...
...LOUISA BOYD GILE...
...driving out in a fine rig along the West Country roads. But much time has passed since then, and with it Mr. Tucker and all but one of the girls. Florence died in girlhood; Nancy married and died before middle-age; Clara and Rose followed in turn. Only Miss Louisa, the eldest, was left to live on in the old house. So, at any rate, thought the neighbors. They had not seen Miss Louisa much of late, but they remembered her as "a sweet old lady," agile of mind and firm of purpose...
...midnight last week, the quiet of Bristol was rent by piercing screams in Somerset Street. Neighbors looked up at No. 3 and saw 84-year-old Miss Louisa standing at a shattered window hurling money, clothes and old bottles into the garden. Behind her stood the gaunt, naked figure of a man calling plaintively for help. The horrified neighbors sent a hurry call to the police...
...Miss Louisa had kept him hidden through all the long years of war, draft-boards, ration books and national registration could only be guessed at. Some neighbors gossiped that he was Rose's illegitimate son, hidden to avoid family scandal. Louisa herself could not enlighten them. She was carried off to a local hospital with a paralyzing cerebral hemorrhage. Nor could Henry. Scrubbed and trimmed, he was being cared for in a mental hospital only a mile or two away. He knew he had lived through a war, he said, because he had heard bombs; he had been told...