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Through diplomatic channels the Chamberlain-Hitler-Blum-Mussolini negotiations continued last week with the secrecy already publicly announced by His Majesty's Government. The London corps of correspondents, about as well informed last week as a group of orphan puppies, came tail-wagging to the Prime Minister, tendered him a birthday party. In high good humor, hawk-faced Neville Chamberlain, who at close range can be a very clubable man, shyly compared himself to a camel, citing a proverb which he said he thinks is Chinese: "One decrepit camel still bears the burden of many asses...
...intelligent. Best hope of improvement for such persons is in patient self-education and enlightened help from others. One of the most eminent spastic paralytics in the U. S. is Dr. Earl Reinhold Carlson of Manhattan's Neurological Institute (TIME, May 30, 1932). Once a convulsive cripple, an orphan at 18, Earl Carlson conquered his handicap by dint of iron determination, plowed through college and medical school, is now practically normal. He advises hundreds of mothers on what to do for their spastic paralytic children...
...much of the famous old black-and-white melodrama. Wall Street is perhaps the real villain, and it is indicted for the murder of all its speculators and their souls. But the old veteran bull, Nicholas Vanalstyne, though he relishes smashing his enemies, wouldn't think of leaving an orphan or a widow dispossessed by him to suffer in penury. His son, heir, and namesake, however, is a rotter pure and simple. He has lived in sin, but he throws the odium of the crime on his innocent little brother Bertie. He owes all he has to his father...
...ranking drummer, he is Ella Fitzgerald's legal guardian. He assumed this responsibility four years ago when, in search of a vocalist for his band, he happened to hear Ella at a Harlem amateur show. Within a few days he had signed papers releasing her from a Brookyn orphan asylum and making her his own ward...
...Miriam Hopkins), out to wheedle her orphan nieces (Cinemoppets Betty Philson & Marianna Strelby) away from their penurious foster parent (Ray Milland), ends up with the hearts of all three. Sample whimsey: Q. ''What goes quack-quack and lays an egg?'' A. "Joe Penner...