Raggedy Ann

The book "Raggedy Andy Stories," looking pretty good for 70 years old, arrived in the mail with a note from my father's twin sister.A newspaper article about Raggedy Ann, who turned 75 not long ago, prompted her to search for the slim volume of tales about Ann's partner, Andy. It had been a gift to my father in 1923.The book begins with two letters written to author Johnny Gruelle, who had just published a book of Raggedy Ann stories based on a doll that had been his mother's. In the first letter, a woman who calls herself Raggedy Andy's "Mama" describes how the boy doll had comforted her as a child.

Hank Williams Jr.leaves in a huffAn apparently intoxicated Hank Williams Jr. swore at his audience and walked off stage after stumbling through parts of four songs in Bonner Springs, Kan., Saturday night.Some people at the abbreviated show demanded ticket refunds. And some threw beer cups and other objects after the country singer left the stage, said Graham Phillips, secretary for Sandstone Amphitheatre."He was a little bit drunk, you might say," Mr. Phillips said. "He started calling people names.