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Died. Major General John Lincoln Clem. 85, U.S.A. retired, "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga"; in San Antonio. Tex. Last Civil War veteran on the active list (until 1916), and youngest U. S. soldier ever to win a sergeant's chevrons. Orphan John Clem joined the Army by stowing away at 10 in a baggage car bound for a mobilization camp at Covington. Ky. He met the Civil War President in 1864, and decided to take Lincoln for his middle name...
...world's biggest chocolate factory lay heavy on the surrounding countryside. Ever since the factory had begun to make big money, abstemious Founder Hershey had poured it out to make his people happy. Besides giving most of his corporation's common stock to endow a great orphan's school, he has built a neat, clean, grassy model town, provided it with model schools, stores, theatres, sporting grounds, community centre...
When John Keats died of consumption in Italy (1821) at the age of 26, he left two girls behind him. Both were named Fanny. One was his orphan sister, the other was Fanny Brawne, to whom he was engaged. Keats's letters to Fanny Brawne are classics in love-letter literature; hers to him were buried with him. In spite of such kind words as Amy Lowell's (John Keats}, Fanny Brawne has generally figured in Keats's story as a light-headed minx who failed to appreciate him. Last week 31 letters of Fanny Brawne...
Bobby here is an orphan being brought up by an ex-slave way down south. Suddenly it appears that he is to inherit a large fortune and so he travels north to stay with his Yankee relatives, a Mr. and Mrs. Layton and his grandmother, played by May Robeson. The parents stumble through an impossible role as a stupid, unimaginative couple, the kind only Hollywood can discover...
...Milestone and Frank Tuttle; producer Kenneth Mac-Gowan. In reply last week, 98 U. S. writers signed a manifesto against General Franco. Declared they: "We cannot keep silent when war becomes a slaughter of the unarmed, the innocent and the helpless. . . . We condemn the deliberate bombing of hospitals, playgrounds, orphan asylums, relief stations and breadlines, and the cowardly and cruel bombardment of Madrid...