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...were Jocists, members of a Belgian-born youth movement, Jeunesse Ouvrière Chrétienne (Christian Working Youth), which militantly aims to Christianize the ranks of labor (TIME, Sept. 26). For eight years Jocism's most vigorous leader in Canada has been Father Roy, 40, a onetime newsboy who belongs to the same religious order (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) as Quebec's Cardinal Villeneuve. To Father Roy, 50,000 Canadian Jocists, aged 14 to 25, look for spiritual inspiration. The mass marriage was his biggest effort to date in providing it. It would, he thought, offset...
Monogram's Streets of New York, whose special equipment is the once brightstar name of Jackie Cooper, is not likely to cause a traffic jam. Strikingly similar to a Universal-Cooper vehicle of last season titled Newsboys' Home, it exhibits Jackie, now a burly, downy adolescent of 15, as an honest newsboy who struggles to become the Abraham Lincoln of Tenth Avenue by studying law at night school. He also has a racketeering elder brother...
...they want to find out, let them read Designs in Scarlet. The customer was Courtney Ryley Cooper, onetime newsboy, salesman, marine, circus pressagent, vaudeville actor, star reporter, popular fiction writer and good pal of J. Edgar Hoover, who calls him "the best informed man on crime in the U. S." Author Cooper was merely propositioning women in order to make a first-hand survey of U. S. white slavery. (Sponsors: the F. B. I. and the Post Office Inspection Department...
...made a surprise visit, incognito, to a camp, asked the director what he wanted most. When the director said he wanted a gasoline water pump, Mr. Hayden promptly made his wish come true by fishing out $75 in cash. Recently, he walked into the lavatory of the Burroughs Newsboy Home in Boston, emerged to announce that he would give the institution money for shower baths and new toilets...
That lug was Edgar Bergen, who 20 years ago, at 16, sketched Charlie's features after those of a ragamuffin Chicago newsboy, paid $35 to have them whittled in wood by a woodcarving barkeep named Mack, and since then has made a tidy fortune speaking his nimble mind through Charlie's lips. Bergen himself is professionally shy, so that the fresh guy, Charlie, seems a distinct personality...