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...city to the high-ceMnged ballroom where Japan's General Tomoyuki Yamashita was on trial for war crimes committed by his troops. She sat gravely in the witness chair, tried to tilt her dangling feet to keep her sandals from falling off, and told why she was an orphan...
...their popes, and to medieval and modern Moslems by their Koran), what of Shakespeare with his Shylock, and Dickens with his Fagin; what of the Bible (I Thessalonians, II, 14-16); what of the Koran; what of the Arabian Nights, where a Jew is said to have cheated an orphan (Aladdin) and his widowed mother of the true price of a table service brought them by a jinn...
...Even comic-strip characters had entered the debate. Isolationist Orphan Annie complained that "international gangsters" aided by "politicians" had stolen Daddy Warbucks' atomic secrets, and Saddlesoap Jones in Smilin' Jack bought a B-29 and two atomic bombs from the government to blast a hurricane (see cuts...
Died. Milton Snavely Hershey, 88, philanthropist, founder of the Hershey Chocolate Corp. and the Hershey Industrial School for orphan boys; in Hershey, Pa., the company town (neighboring Pennsylvania Dutch farmers sometimes complain of "da chockle shtink") he founded in a cornfield in 1903. In 1937, after having transferred his assets to the school (enrollment: 1,000), he said: "I have in the world, now, my clothes, my furniture, a few securities, and nothing else...
...away from the outlandish escapades of the Orphan Annies with a show which would "dramatize the everyday life of ordinary children...