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Will James's father was a cowpuncher. When Will was a little shaver his mother died and soon afterward his father was gored to death by a steer. Orphan Will was taken over by a friend of his father, a Frenchman named Beaupré. From "Bopy" the boy learned all about how to live in the open: to hunt, trap, ride, cook. One morning, when Will was a boy in his 'teens, he woke to find the camp fire almost out, and no Bopy in sight. They were camped near a river, and in the river the boy found their battered...
...town. He had loved, but in vain, Harriet Noel?she who might have been one of the world's great actresses had it not been for her villain husband and her darling son, for whose future stage career she gladly sacrificed her own. Young son Pierre, too soon an orphan, had been brought up by old Tony to fulfill his mother's dreams...
Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. of Baltimore was a worthy "orphan" company rich in engineering talent and sales ability, poor in cash. North American Aviation, Inc. of New York is a holding company, affiliated with the potent Curtiss-Keys group, whose subsidiaries include Sperry Gyroscope Co., Eastern Air Transport (formerly Pitcairn), Ford Instrument Co. Last week "orphan" B-J won a secure home and assured backing for aircraft development by accepting a stock exchange offered by North American. Many a B-J engineer, including Vice President Temple N. Joyce, is a former Curtiss...
Barbara Winship, pretty but penniless orphan from Savannah, Ga., goes to Paris to live with her middle-aged uncle and aunt, the Selbys. Uncle George has a permanent job in Paris; Aunt Virginia has what is almost a salon. They know and bother with few transient U. S. tourists; instead they have good friends among the French bourgeoisie (U. S.: upper classes). When Barbara arrives in Paris she is a small-town Southern girl, almost a type. Her aunt's canny tutelage, her own adaptability, latent good sense, transform her into an original charmer. When she marries good-natured...
...makers of colossal newspaper fortunes, once bitter rivals, then friends and collaborators in the United Empire Party, and today goodness knows what. Last week Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere seemed to have been made a fool of by his blatant twin, seemed to have been left with a penniless orphan party on his hands, which he doggedly announced he would bring up "until we have achieved all our aims...