Small Fry

Forest ("Nubbins") Hoffman, the small boy in Cheyenne, Wyo. who got a month-early Christmas party last year when everyone thought he was dying, looked forward to his fourth birthday July ii. Now fit, chipper and feeling like a new boy, six months after a life-saving operation, he pedalled around for news photographers on his velocipede (see cut), one of his houseful of Christmas presents from sympathetic newspaper readers.

Shirley Temple, now 17, who has been growing up in public since she was three and a half, passed another milestone--graduation from high school (Los Angeles' swank Westlake School for Girls).

Bill Robinson, 67-year-old past master of tap, now dancing on Broadway, told an interviewer that his real name was Luther, and recalled how he had changed it: "I said to myself, 'I'll never go about the world with nobody callin' me Luther,' so I caught my brother whose name was Bill and I gave him a good whippin'. I told him that from now on his name was Percy and mine was Bill. He's in North Carolina how, and he's still Percy Robinson."

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.