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...fact that "Tokyo Rose" and "Little Orphan Annie" play a good part in raising our morale here in the Aleutians. Here's hoping we can pay them a visit soon...
...during a skirmish with the Plant estate for a $150,000 settlement on young Peter, she said the boy was actually her son and Phil's. At other times there have been other explanations of Peter: i) he is the adopted child of an English woman; 2) the orphan of her cousin; 3) her son, but not Phil...
...days of 1931 and 1932 it was our toilet paper. Before the war I was vitally interested in what happened to Orphan Annie and Dick Tracy and Moon Mullins. What did I care about their editorial policy...
Died. Sidney Zollicoffer Mitchell, 81, fabulous utilitycoon; in Manhattan. In 1929 he was one of many men called "richest in the world." The tall, broad-shouldered Annapolis-man ('83) grubbed an Alabama cotton patch as an orphan of twelve, at 24 built the first hydroelectric plant west of the Rockies. Founder of the colossal Electric Bond & Share Co., he originated many holding-company principles and strategems, was a prime mover in the ornate pre-depression financial structure of U.S. utilities...
Grape-Happy Orphan. Probably the highest-paid bird in the world ($500 a radio performance), Raffles belongs to the explorer-lecturers, Mr. & Mrs. Carveth Wells. Mrs. Wells adopted Raffles in Malaya four years ago after its mother was killed by a snake. Mrs. Wells worked hard on the bird's diction, avoiding profanity, and taught Raffles to speak only on cue (a process involving bribery with the bird's favorite food-grapes). A major crisis developed when Raffles picked up a Southern drawl from the Wells's Negro maid, but that crisis passed when the maid picked...