People: 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 milestoneĀ—graduation from high school (Los...

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