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...first professional hockey game in the U.S.). Whether or not its citizens will get steamed up over a team that says "my heart belongs to Brooklyn," but plays its home games across the river in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, remains to be seen. Last year the orphan Americans finished last in the seven-team league. This may be Brooklyn's year in hockey as well as baseball, but after three games last week there was no indication...
...correspondent who was a poor map reader was as helpless as an orphan unable to dress himself. At Lake Charles (headquarters of Lieut. General Walter Krueger's Third Army) and at Winnfield (headquarters of Lieut. General Ben Lear's Second Army) the correspondents assigned to each Army were told that the war would begin about midnight. Eventually they received word that action had started 100 to 200 miles away. Then they saw the last of headquarter comforts and were off into the dawn...
Younger brother Stan was Bellamy's chief target, especially after a little girl named Alice discovered that she was not an "own" child but an adopted orphan. :' 'Why, it might happen to anybody,' Stan said. 'How could a person tell?' It was at that moment when the idea came to me. . . . 'You couldn't tell,' I said, 'nobody could. . . . Stan, I hadn't intended to tell you this, but . . . you're not really my brother at all-you're an orphan...
...dramadventure with commendable vigor and a fetching show of talent, and she has the advantage of having dieted away considerable poundage for this new appearance. As an able-bodied refugee, she becomes the embarrassing charge of a jive pianist .(Jonn Payne), who thought he was adopting an infant war orphan. But when he discovers she can ski, he gladly chucks his indoors blues singer (Lynn Bari) for his Nasturtium of the North...
...rating is a key to the type of education they should receive. Those who are lagging in social tests, for example, should be sent to special kindergartens as soon as possible. Most important requirement for full flowering of personality, say the doctors, is a happy home. Life in an orphan asylum, no matter how well equipped, retards even the brightest children. For every infant needs to be the center of his own private universe...