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...truant officer busily seizes the occasion for renewed efforts to send Star to an asylum. Captain Nazro cleverly remembers that when Star was washed ashore a photograph album was rescued also, containing portraits of her kin. He writes to them. They appear. Kindly folk, they take Star to live with them in Boston. When she pines for Captain January, they charter a small yacht on which he is captain, Nazro first mate and the tap-dancing villager, the crew...
...white orphan children," prescribed that "no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor." When Stephen Girard's French kin tried to break the will, their advocate, Daniel Webster, carried the plea to the U. S. Supreme Court, where he eloquently protested against "a cruel experiment upon these orphans to shut them up and make them the victims of a philosophical speculation. ... If the courts should set this will aside...
Died. Harry E. Wilken Sr., 63, long-time whiskey distiller, concocter of Wilken Family Blended Whiskey (TIME, Aug. 25), which Schenley Distillers Corp. promoted by homey advertisements showing Wilken's kin (Sons Harry Jr. & William. Son-in-law Tom) draped around a whiskey keg, smacking their lips, proclaiming to each other: "It's our family whiskey. Neighbor and neighbor-it's your price"; of a heart ailment; in Tarentum...
...placed a rabbit's ova in a bottle with a rabbit's sperm, shook them together for 20 minutes. Next he placed the fertilized ova in the fallopian tube of a rabbit doe who 33 days later bore a litter of six healthy bunnies. They were no kin to her. She was simply their host-mother (TIME, March...
Married. William Lawson Little Jr., 25, winner of the U. S. and British amateur golf championships for two consecutive years (1934 and 1935); and Dorothy Kurd. 18 (no kin to golfer Dorothy Campbell Kurd); in Chicago...