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Instead of a posse. Little organized a "postcard shower" from Press readers to cheer up the jailed Texan, helped newspapers in Conley's home town of Amarillo raise a $5,500 fund for his legal defense. Last week, after 37 months in jail, Texan Conley was back home with eight-year-old daughter Lynette, aided in part by the decision of a Massachusetts judge to let Texas settle the custody question...
Neither Snow, nor Rain . . . In Oswego, N.Y., Mrs. Thomas Keefe finally received a postcard mailed April 8, 1911, in Lyons, N.Y., 35 miles away, by her brother Godfrey, who died 39 years...
Deputy Defense Secretary Roger Kyes's first piece of fan mail after he took over his broad oak desk in the Pentagon last February was a postcard from a Tennessean who, after seeing Kyes's picture in the paper, wrote: "You look to me as though you could spit in the devil's eye." Big (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.), craggy Roger Kyes* makes a similar impression on people who encounter him face to face. After meeting him for the first time, a Pentagonian remarked: "He looks like the kind...
Disney, playing the whimsical Barrie tale for out & out fun as well as freewheeling fantasy, has crammed it with pell-mell adventure and capering slapstick. By stressing caricature, the movie avoids much of the cute picture-postcard look that has oversweetened some of Disney's previous films. Ornamented with some bright and lilting tunes, it is a lively feature-length Technicolor excursion into a world that glows with an exhilarating charm and a gentle joyousness...
...days later, a postcard came from Zurich. A short time later, another card came from Munich, which read: "I feel like a man on parole reporting to my sponsor, Mr. Klein . . . Punctually yours, Thornton Wilder." Wilder moved on to Baden-Baden, then back to Munich, then to Innsbruck. London Correspondent A. T. Baker caught up with him there and spent four days with...