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...Dear God, I wished on a star two times but nothing happened. Now what? [Signed] Anna." The question, delivered with all the Promethean imperiousness of a six-year-old, is from More Children's Letters to God (Simon & Schuster), the second of two phenomenally successful compilations of juvenile missives addressed to the deity. Compiled by a pair of veteran writers of children's books, Eric Marshall and Stuart Hample, Children's Letters to God was published last year, has so far sold 340,000 copies. More Letters, only eleven weeks in print, has already reached...
Heroes in the Pits. Not that there haven't been defensive stars before. Washington Redskins Linebacker Sam Huff has been a popular figure for years, and Larry Wilson of the St. Louis Cardinals practically holds the patent on the safety blitz. But they are the visible parts of the defense. What six-year-old could fail to spot a blitzing safety man or cheer a cornerback's one-handed interception. The difference is that knowledgeable football buffs have now found a whole new pantheon of heroes in the heart of the defense: the front four linemen, the immense...
...Baker, Dave McKelvey, Jeff Huvelle, and Trey Burns streaked around the 21-lap course in 7:45.8, bettering a six-year-old Cage mark of 7:52.3 by six and one-half seconds. Burns, the team's anchor man, crossed the finish line nearly a lap and a half ahead of the last Terrier runner...
...Polish concentration camp, Nazi guards tell Haim Kalinsky that since his two sons are so "nice," they will kill only one of them-thus forcing on him a sadistic perversion of Abraham's choice. Kalinsky selects his favorite, eleven-year-old Shmuel, to be spared, while six-year-old Daniel is led away to be slaughtered...
Suspended Sales. Even though John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co. has just increased its underwriting from $7,000,000 to $14.5 million, construction has slowed to a near standstill at six-year-old El Dorado Hills, a 10,000-acre new town 25 miles east of Sacramento. Ross Cortese, one of the nation's foremost developers of self-contained retirement villages, was forced to suspend sales and refund some down payments recently at four of his "Leisure World" communities in Maryland, New Jersey and California. To reduce his heavy land-carrying costs, he is also trying to sell...