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...every city and town in Massachusetts last week, police searched for a blue-eyed, four-year-old girl whose name and face were familiar to newspaper readers across the U.S. Everyone knew that the youngster was safe, but no one could say that she had not been harmed. Hildy McCoy, born out of wedlock to a Roman Catholic mother, was the innocent victim of a bitter and poignant custody case. To avoid giving her up, her Jewish foster parents had hidden her in defiance of Massachusetts...
Dallas' Tecon Corp., the lively youngster of the construction business that underbid older firms to get the Contractor's Hill job, expects to finish by Aug. 15, and to make a profit of between 30% and 40% on the $4,100,000 it will receive...
Concerning the educational tools being rusty, I can also tell you that when a youngster of 16 or 17 gets out of high school, he knows much more than his American counterpart, much less about baseball, but certainly more about arts and sciences...
When a new state government took office last month, the job of Minister of Culture went to aggressive, 34-year-old Leonhard Schlüter. He had been a hard, bright, ambitious youngster in Hitler's Germany. His mother was half-Jewish, but somehow even this did not handicap him too much. While some of his relatives were killed in concentration camps, young Schlüter went into Hitler's Wehrmacht, won a decoration in France, was wounded and discharged, then entered the University of Göttingen as a law student...
...classic adventure story of British smugglers, and just as the novel itself was reminiscent of Robert Louis Stevenson, so the movie faithfully echoes other good movies: the graveyard encounter between boy and convict in Great Expectations is almost exactly reproduced, while the affectionate bond between a rogue and youngster that illumined both Kidnapped and Treasure Island is duplicated in Moonfleet by Rapscallion Stewart Granger and Orphan Jon Whiteley...