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...July 11 issue we read of an uneducated waif, Harold M. Dunn, who in 33 months under duress collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received a sentence of eight years at hard labor. In the same section a highly educated college graduate, Winston Burdett, who without duress-seemingly for the whim of it-collaborated with Communism, later confessed and received praise from his boss and the Senate committee. I wonder if it was with premeditation or happenstance that TIME placed these sad tales side by side to illustrate this inequality of our scales of justice...
...divides and finally conquers her loyalties. On one of his Olympian binges, or gnawing a chicken wing, he seems like another Charles Laughton playing Henry VIII. But behind the regal belch hides the lonely and fiercely honest old artist. He mercilessly paints Celia in a cage, an adolescent waif trapped behind the narrow bars of parental thou-shalt-nots. At novel's end, with Fatuncle's help, she has flown the coop to become a woman-her own woman. Author Hallinan has written a fine and pleasing novel, even if her prose is occasionally more breathless than deathless...
...1930s, many a U.S. housewife without so much as a Cadillac to call her own wrung her hands in anguish over the plight of a pathetic, ten-year-old waif named Gloria Vanderbilt. Fatherless at two, Gloria was heir to a trust fund totaling some $3,000,000, and nobody seemed to love her for her wide-eyed, wispy self alone. In one of the most relentlessly publicized custody fights of all time, little Gloria's mother, the gadabout "big Gloria" Morgan Vanderbilt, and her aunt, the redoubtable, socialite art lover, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, traded haymakers of innuendo...
Ronnie was a waif, deserted by his father, a U.S. Army officer who left Korea. Then his mother, after struggling to feed and clothe him, died of malnutrition and tuberculosis...
...work in progress was a $700,000, 65-bed wing for St. Anne's Maternity Hospital, a home for unwed mothers. The nun was Sister Winifred, 59, head of St. Anne's ever since she took charge in 1941. St. Anne's was an inauspicious waif itself in those days, consisting of one building, one 40-year-old cottage and exactly $39.39 in cash. Recalls Sister Winifred: "We couldn't even pay for the groceries." Now, the hospital operates on an annual budget of $107,000, maintains 42 beds, and has a volunteer staff...