Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine dailies broke the silence with editions that tried, in one way or another, to make up for lost days. The Daily News brought comic-strip buffs up to date on neglected episodes in the lives of Orphan Annie and Smilin' Jack, handed out free copies of undistributed Sunday-edition comic supplements. The Herald Tribune, which had to wait for the end of the strike to publish an inside story, published it: the resignation of Herald Tribune President and Editor Ogden R. Reid (TIME, Dec. 15), who had postponed his departure until the paper could record it. Lingering effects...
...upswept lock of hair, and is easily Europe's most popular comic-strip character. French children once named him their favorite hero in a magazine poll, gave him nearly three times as many votes as Napoleon. Compared to U.S. characters, Tintin has a close kinship to Little Orphan Annie in his devotion to morality. Like Annie, oddly enough, Tintin has undeveloped eyes, e.g., she has circles but no dots; he has dots but no circles...
...been a long time, and weeks of grinding had dulled my critical faculties to an all-time low. For this reason, the movie, a weak-kneed effort called Tides of Passion, met with my most enthusiastic response. I was touched by the plight of an unfortunate orphan--female--who, tossed into the heartless world with no protector, was buffeted by the fates only to find true love at last...
...bust by the De Young Museum of San Francisco [TIME, Oct. 61, I felt worse than a bridegroom reading the account of his wedding. At least the bridegroom gets his name mentioned. You omitted the fact that the bust languished in my Mond'art Galler ies, a nameless orphan, until Museum Director Walter Heil came along, gave it a name and parentage: Cosimo de Medici by Benvenuto ellini...
...most dramatic contestant of all was Israel's own entry: Amos Hacham, 30, a partly paralyzed, barely articulate clerk in Jerusalem's Institute for the Blind, and the orphan son of a Bible scholar; a childhood accident had left Hacham with a dragging leg, a shriveled arm and a sagging mouth. All Israel was rooting for Amos as contest time drew near. Every seat in Jerusalem's Hebrew University amphitheatre (capacity: 2,340) was sold well in advance, 300 policemen handled the crowds, and all over the country radio sets were tuned in. With a blare...