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...like him. A wispy, monkish little man of 82 who wears a black skull cap and translates Horace, he has used a number of pen names: Martin Clifford, creator of Tom Merry of St.. Jim's; Hilda Richards, creator of Bessie Bunter; Ralph Redway for the Rio Kid; Peter Todd for Herlock Sholmes; and Owen Conquest for Jimmy Silver. But mostly, Charles Hamilton is Bunter's creator, Frank Richards. "To relatives and bankers and the inspector of taxes," says he. "I am still Charles Hamilton; to everybody else, including myself, [I am] Frank Richards...
Argentina's most famous artist is Benito Quinquela Martin, a painter who behaves much like a kid left alone in a room with several cans of paint. He believes in using all sorts of colors, the louder the better. He also thinks that his art should not be confined to canvas rectangles: he likes to paint almost anything in reach...
...number of women who went in for petting jumped to 91% among those born in the first decade of the century, and to 99% among their kid sisters and their daughters. The proportion of those who would carry petting, as Kinsey puts it. "to the point of orgasm'' rose from one-fourth to more than half...
...Hollywood, production on the life story of the onetime child actor, Jackie (The Kid) Coogan, was halted by a letter. Written by a lawyer for Charles Chaplin Sr., the letter protested the plan to have Charles Chaplin Jr. impersonate his famous father in the Coogan film. Warned the attorney: "Mr. Chaplin has not consented, and refuses to consent, to being impersonated in this manner...
...unlucky grownups who have to deal with him. Not every youngster of four is original enough to throw rice pudding instead of rice as the newlyweds leave the church. And not too many grasp the basic economic facts of life so quickly. Says Dennis in answer to a slower kid's question: "Father's Day?. Well, it's just like Mother's Day, only you can buy a cheaper present...