National Affairs: Little Sister

When Patrick Lynch, 17, of Brooklyn, N. Y. was arrested and charged with unlawful entry, his 13-year-old sister Nora came to court to put in a word for him. So impressed was the judge with Nora's looks and talk that he paroled the boy in his younger sister's custody.

Nora kept a record of Pat's conduct in the back of her homework book, pinned an apron on him and made him sweep the floors and wash the dishes. At the end of the seven-week parole period she returned him to the court with a full report, and Judge William O'Dwyer relieved her...

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