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...Gimmick." Of all the funny-paper freedom fighters, none is more dogged than Harold L. Gray's 38-year-old Orphan Annie, a mop-haired moppet who has empty circles for eyes* and a bald, dinner-jacketed billionaire for a foster father. Last month, Annie and her Daddy Warbucks were holed up on a tropical island somewhere just off the map. Suddenly "enemy" planes appeared, carrying H-bombs. But Daddy and his pals were forearmed. Using what he calls his "ray gimmick," Daddy exploded the H-bombs prematurely, atomizing the attackers...
...residents. Among his gifts: a $3,000,000 community house, a junior college, three schools, two country clubs, four golf courses, an amusement park, two swimming pools, an ice rink, a hotel, stadium, zoo and firehouse. Childless himself, Hershey founded the Milton Hershey School for orphan boys and gave his stock to it. Through trust funds, the school now owns 70% of Hershey Chocolate's 2,400,000 outstanding shares...
...Lucky Man. In Japanese. Konosuke Matsushita's name means "lucky man beneath the pines," but his success owes more to pluck than luck. While he was still a child, his parents and five of his seven brothers and sisters died in rapid succession, leaving him, a frail orphan, to scratch for a living. With no family to discipline him in the rigid Japanese rules of life, which dictated that a boy must stick with his first employer for life. Matsushita at 1 6 deserted his job as apprentice bicycle repairman to join the Osaka Electric Light Co. because...
...used to meet the $2500 goal set last October by the Student Council. The six charities are the Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Fund, Recording for the Blind, United Negro College Fund, MEDICO, KA-JWA (Farmer's Vocational School of Inchon, Korea), and the Foster Parent Fund, which sponsors a Vietnamese orphan...
Adopted. By Elizabeth Taylor, 29, Oscar-winning (Butterfield 8) cinema goddess, and Crooner Eddie Fisher, 33: Maria, a one-year-old orphan; announced in Rome. The couple has been "looking for a baby for about two years." Already living with the Fishers are two children of Miss Taylor's by former Husband Michael Wilding and one by Mike Todd. Fisher has two children of his own who live with ex-Wife Debbie Reynolds...