Word: six-year-old
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With the Gettle story breaking in Los Angeles exactly 43 min. after six-year-old June Robles was found in the desert out-side Tucson, Ariz., the Press was in a frenzy. So warm was the Gettle story in Los Angeles that old Arthur Brisbane, visiting there, stepped back into his favorite role of reporter for the day. He went to the Hall of Justice, spent four and a half hours with the prisoners in the case, wrote live columns instead of one for his syndicate next day. After interviewing Kidnappers Kirk, Kerrigan & Williams (see p. 16), Reporter Brisbane...
...remember the hunting lodge. His benefactress, the great Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, had fled there as a young mother with her cowardly, dying Emperor, in 1860, when British and French troops marched on Peking. When Revolution blew Pu Yi, a six-year-old boy, off the throne of the Manchus in 1912, he was locked in the Winter Palace at Peiping. He did not enjoy Manchu pomp, preferred his tennis court and bicycle...
...Lumber Co.'s wharf at Poughkeepsie one noon last week and waved frantic farewell to her grandfather on a big white yacht easing out into the Hudson River. At the Nourmahal's rail stood "pop," otherwise the President of the. U. S., waving back to his six-year-old granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt ("Sistie") Dall. Also on the wharf were "Sistie's' flaxen-haired young mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, "Sistie's" white-haired great-grandmother, Sara Delano Roosevelt who, a few minutes before, had kissed her President-son goodby. ''Sistie's" grandmother, Anna...
...snuffer on a brilliant issue comes "The Children's Hour of Crime," by Arthur Mann. In the article he expounds at length on the deletrious influence of such programs as "Little Orphan Annie," and "Skippy," on his children. He describes his horror at hearing his six-year-old son command him to "Stick 'em up!" and indulges generally in the expression of those paranoiac which, appearently, haunt parents when their children decided to become sheriffs or outlaws. While the conclusions of the article are interesting only in their absurdity, they move in a just cause; if the programs in question...
Among the fingerpainters at last week's exhibition were Composer Deems Taylor's six-year-old daughter Joan, and six-year-old Tanya Bogoslovsky, daughter of Educator Boris Bogoslovsky. Artist Bogoslovsky's creation, a thing like a jungle of twisted vines, inspired her to her first poem, which was attached to the picture: There is a man lost in the dark woods. I keep finding him and finding him But he goes again behind the dark trees- Again and again...