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TIME, March 18 says: "The Depression-time rarity, the $20 bill, has come to be at home in everybody's wallet"-maybe in everybody's but the Joe on the fixed income. If you see one of those double sawbucks, that is an orphan looking for a home, give it this address. Many that have been shunted to the mothballs haven't viewed the countenance of Andrew Jackson for such a long period that your picture of same was mistaken for that Tennessee minstrel minus...
...carried his political opinions over into his own comic strip field. Capp flatly declared that "Orphan Annie is not a Communist," but was not so favorable to other strips. He revealed that eight weeks from now Daisy Mae's favorite comic strip will appear in "Li'l Abner" entitled "Mary Horm, America's Favorite Busybody." He described "Rex Morgan, M.D." as the comic strip that tells you how to enjoy leprosy, rather than how to cure...
...case you haven't already heard the classic Jewish definition of hutzpa: a defendant, who after murdering his parents, pleads for mercy from the court on grounds that he is an orphan...
...open road quickly pushed up to 80 m.p.h. In five minutes she was at the aptly named Thermal airport, where a sleek Lockheed Lodestar sat warmed up and ready for flight. She fastened herself expertly into the pilot's seat; seconds later Jacqueline Cochran Odium. 47, an orphan who vaulted from a Tobacco Road childhood to interna tional fame as an aviatress, businesswoman (cosmetics) and the wife of Financier Floyd Odium, was flying south. It was another day in her nonstop campaign for Congress...
Gaby (M-G-M). Hollywood casts Leslie Caron as if she were a broken leg. In Lili, in The Glass Slipper, and now in her latest picture, she has been rigidly restricted to the role of 1) a hot-eyed French girl who is also 2) a pathetic little orphan, 3) a highly trained ballet dancer, at least in her dreams, and 4) dreamily in love with an actor who looks as pretty as a cupcake (Mel Ferrer, Michael Wilding and now John Kerr...