Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only last month, in a comic strip, when Daddy Warbucks had to have a blood transfusion, Little Orphan Annie had a frantic time finding a donor with the right blood type. But that desperate, urgent situation, fairly common in modern medicine, may soon be out of date...
THEY WENT ON TOGETHER-Robert Nathan-Knopf ($2). Through an internationalized and thereby rather vague countryside, a widow, her son, her daughter and an orphan girl flee before an invading army. Robert Nathan's sour-sweet poetic tone, his exquisite sense of timing. are as usual; as usual, too, there is the highly specialized sentimentality which makes some of Nathan's readers dubious, others devoted...
...once picked the lock of his cousin's Model-T Ford with a hairpin, drove carefully around the block. In 1918, while he was at college, Earl's mother died and the following year his father killed himself. Instead of going to pieces, the crippled orphan boy matured overnight. Today Dr. Carlson, happily married, spends summers in Manhattan and Long Island, winters in his school at Pompano, Fla. He speaks slowly, writes in a sprawling hand, but dances, swims, paddles a canoe, is a good shot. Dr. Carlson deplores pampering for spastics, insists that only the rigors...
...same bill is a picture called "Nobody's Children" which has a good message but drags. It concerns orphan children and their problem of finding a place in the world. All done in a good spirit, but it should be shown only at parent-teachers' meetings...
...cotton exports this year would probably be the lowest since the Civil War blockade was lifted. He blamed this not only on World War II, but on U. S. foreign policy, which has failed to keep foreign (i.e., Axis) markets open during the war, making cotton "essentially a war orphan." That, he said, gave cotton growers a right to compensation. The Government should not only underwrite U. S. cotton production, but also stop trying to curtail it. "It may be argued that such a program will accumulate stocks of cotton in the hands of the Government. . . . What...