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...London last week a troubled little orphan, the daughter of one of Britain's war heroines, whiled away the lonely hours wondering why her mother did not come back. In Ravensbruck, a group of hangdog Nazis were awaiting trial for her mother's murder...
...candy and all the trimmings that traditionally go with Christmas. But it was a safe bet that no toy on Christmas Day aroused more ecstasy than a pair of new shoes given to a little boy in the U.S. zone of far-off Vienna. The little boy was an orphan. Like most of the children he knew, he had cause to realize that mere warmth, mere survival, are incomparably precious...
America's press lords, like their millions of readers, spend more time over their comic strips than over their editorial pages. The late Captain Joseph M. Patterson guided his comics (Orphan Annie, Dick Tracy, Terry, etc.) as cunningly as his anti-Roosevelt campaigns, built a monster circulation (now 2,400.000) for his New York Daily News. William Randolph Hearst was one of the daddies of comics (his early Yellow Kid strip led to the phrase "yellow journalism"). Last week the trade paper Editor & Publisher, reporting the launching of Hearst's newest strip, Dick's Adventures in Dreamland...
...come a long way to the old house. Left an orphan at five, she went to live on a Virginia farm with her German grandparents. She left them at 15. Her grandparents did not believe in education for women; Ida Stover did. She got a job as a cook and when she was 21 followed her seven brothers west. Her brothers went their various ways. Ida Stover went to Lane University, a small school at Lecompton, Kans...
Young Miss O'Brien, speaking her broguish lines with considerable skill, plays an Irish orphan who has the monumental task of softening up three wealthy, crotchety old men (Banker Edward Arnold, Doctor Lionel Barrymore, Judge Lewis Stone). She owns a piece of property containing an ancient oak tree, which happens to be the home of her friends, the Wee People. Her three selfish, unimaginative guardians want to get rid of the property, uproot the tree. And dispossess the pixies? Not as long as Margaret and her sweet old drunken manservant (Thomas Mitchell) can prevent...