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Q.E.D. The Blue Network seemed to have proved its point: that a good deal of soap opera time is wasted. The Blue, when it was NBC's second string network, produced one of radio's first network soap operas (Little Orphan Annie) in 1931. After it was separated from NBC, the Blue got rid of its four sponsored soaps and looked around for something to replace them. Since then it has concentrated on music, variety, comic and children's daytime programs-trying to build different kinds of shows to pull the soapy diehards away from its competitors...
Beau Jack is no Joe Louis, but he is a busy little fighter. His real name is Sidney Walker and he is an orphan. When he was a moppet, he was found asleep in the locker room of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, Bobby Jones's home sod. Bowman Milligan, the club steward, made him shoeshine boy. When the club put on battles royal, Little Beau always picked up the coins. Before long, the happy-go-lucky, flat-faced ragamuffin became the mascot of Jones and his friends...
...Lincoln's death inspired Little Tad ("God bless the little orphan boy, a father's darling pride"), post-war scorn for the South jelled into the unwarranted Jeff in Petticoats. The absurd feminine posture of the late '60s, called the Grecian Bend, was ribbed in a song. So was the style of tasseled shoes...
Some youngsters, not yet in high school, got the jump on the older boys by forming their own Junior Commandos, influenced by the comic strips' "Colonel Orphan Annie," currently leading her commandos against enemy agents. At Detroit's Boys Club playground more than 100 youngsters, dressed in shorts, sneakers and tin helmets, and carrying wooden guns, went through commando drill...
...regret, it is unavoidable that in the course of such a campaign the innocent Indian people would also be made acquainted with the horrors of war." Premier Tojo described Australia as "the orphan of the Pacific," declared she was "now helplessly expecting Japan's attack after the battle in the Coral Sea wiped away naval units put up for the defense of Australia...