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Wary of controversy, most of the 50 franchised department stores across the country are keeping Little Brother under wraps. Manhattan's Bloomingdale's doesn't stock the doll, will fill mail orders only. Denver's MayD & F and Cleveland's Higbee's have taken the doll off display, although so many customers have come in asking for it that both stores have had to reorder. With various pediatricians and child psychologists coming to the defense of Little Brother as a perfectly natural play doll "unless adult reaction makes it unnatural play," Creative Playthings...
...years of research, he tracked down 164 cases, reports Dr. Bean (now at the University of Iowa) in the current A.M.A. Journal. The cases range over 300 years, from a "woeman or mayd in Suffolk who had a julking and fluctuation in her chest . . . heard by the standers by," to soldiers in modern war. Some of the noises-likened to the grinding of gears, the rustling of leaves, the crunching of newspapers, the cooing of doves-have kept their victims awake for nights on end; others have made it impossible for husbands or wives to sleep in the same room...
Backs Dick Hoffman and Ed Moll, end Bill Wright, and quarterback John South-mayd, stars of the Bellboy game last Friday, will start against a Belmont Hill team that is weakened by several injuries...
...take her hand bag and start for Chicago. From Mame to Illinois, to her, seemed a great distance, for never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston, one Saturday night, only to behold with horror the worst of these...
...straighte accosteth the nut-browne mayd...