Prelude to the 40th National Baby Parade at Asbury Park, N.J. next week was an angry, flaying editorial in Parents' Magazine. On orders of Publisher George Joseph Hecht, Editor Clara Savage Littledale berated the promoters: "Have you seen the hundreds of children who wait for hours in the broiling sun dressed in fantastic, uncomfortable costumes in order to march more hours in the heat before thousands of adults who should be more humane than to come to see them? Many of the children are very tiny things, the younger the better because the 'cuter'...
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