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Show OCTOBER 1 7, 1 9 8 2 1 1 Significal By Irving Wallace, David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace Alice the Gadfly was the daughter of a U.S. and probably the only in modem history whose is listed on the death certificate as gadfly. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary defines gadfly as an intentionally annoying person who stimulates or provokes others, especially by persistent ir- She McMmUiEm art MtM tar Umm artk Artimta Fwbmmi't, Mi m M.B. fcfaiCwiii -F- REE CATALOG p-At-Home IfTiiriTfitrm matOBstrlu free-spirit- Wise call cottoct 114) Manhattan skytime, a few decades back: Hitler hoped to do a little landscaping INC. ORTHO-KINETIC- P.O. Box 2000 PAR Wl 53187 lEJcr's Ffca To Ccsdi tew Ycrk Waukesha. 'IT'V State ICitj Jfheot Zip Sew Easy in Stripes ; J uring World War II, HiUer W was obsessed by the idea of I) blitzing the Allies chiefcities London, Moscow and esYork.' As he figured itr New pecially even if an air attack on Manhattan did little damage, the impact on American morale would be devastating. Three leading German aircraft companies were commissioned to produce debombers. Focke-Wuaircraft with a signed a bomb load, but it never 22, got past the drawing board. Messer-schmit-ts Me 264V-- 1 was modest 3960-a more to equipped carry I long-ran- lf ge six-engi- ne 000-pou- nd four-engi- ne pound bomb load across the Atlantic at n in high altitudes, and it was December 1942. Refined models with heavier bomb loads were later designed, but wartime supply shortages forced Messerschmitt to abandon the program. Meanwhile, the Junkers company developed the Ju390, the largest plane then manufactured in Germany. In January 1944, the Third Reich asserted n from that the Ju390 had been miles within to 12z Bordeaux, France, of the U.S. coastline north of New York. Six months later, saboteurs destroyed the Junkers project and, with it. Hitlers hopes of ever reaching his target. test-flow- test-flow- Rasders Reach Out To Help Runaways he response by PARADES readers to Dotson Raders two articles this year on the plight of runaway youths (PARADE, Feb. 2 and Sept. 5 ) has been so overwhelming that the telephone lines of the runaway youth agencies we listed have been swamped. The agencies r jmr stress al otspe 704 Imane tha cress Sze or woo Pnrwd Pattern, Mae Sizes 0 t2 (Oust 34) taws 2 yds. 60 nen S200 Panama ara 2JS each. Add SOe aacti tar poataga. handling. Sand to: Parade Panama. Dept. M. Otd Chataaa 9La. II V.. N.V. 10113. Alkm 3 aaeki tor dativary: General OPcas 243 W tTthSI NY NY 100" IN. Y. resident ritating criticism. No other term better describes Alice Roosevelt Longworth, elder daughter of Theodore Roosevelt. When Roosevelt banned his teenager from smoking under the White House roof, she puffed aw ay on the roof. To pass the time on a long train trip, she fired pistol shots at telegraph poles. I can be President of the United States or 1 can control Alice, her father once said. I cannot possibly do both. In her later years, Alice was known as have expressed their gratitude at the outpouring of concern and offers of help. Readers who have been unable to reach the agencies by telephone may gain additional information about the problems of runaways by writing to the following addresses: The National Youth Work Alliance, Dept. P. 1346 Connecticut Ave. . N. W. . Washington. D.C. 20036; the National Fund for Run- away Children. Dept. P, 151 IK St., Suite 805. D.C. Washington. 20005; and the National Runaway Switchboard, Dept. P. 2210 N. Halsted St., Chicago. Mrs. Longworth: Barbed tongue to the end Washingtons other monument" a wealthy socialite famous for her barbed wit. individuality and conservative politics. She knew every President from Benjamin Harrison to Gerald Ford and, at one time or another, twitted most of them. Eisenhower was a boob, she said. Harding was a slob," and FDR, a distant cousin, was 90 percent mush and 10 percent Eleanor. Calvin Coolidge. Alice once said, looked as if he had been weaned on a pickle. When Alice died in 1980 at age 96, her family was hard put to come up w ith a profession to list on her death certificate. The authorities, who obviously knew nothing about Alice, proposed housewife. Finally, a family friend suggested gadfly. It fit perfectly. III. 60614. continued MCE 18 OCTOBER 17, 1982 PARADE MAGAZINE |