Word: agee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finances in the Golden Age...
Vital Statistics. Age: 58 (born Sept. 8, 1889, in Cincinnati, in a gingerbread Victorian house overlooking the Ohio River). Ancestry: eldest of the three children (two sons, one daughter) of William Howard Taft, 26th President of the U.S. and later Chief Justice; grandson of Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War and later Attorney General in the Cabinet of Ulysses S. Grant. Educated: at his Uncle Horace's Taft School in Watertown, Conn. (1906); Yale (1910); Harvard Law School (1913). Married: in 1914 to Martha Bowers, witty, vivacious daughter of President Taft's Solicitor General Lloyd Bowers. Children: William Howard...
...blood (it used to be the skull). Dr. Victor E. Levine of Creighton University, Omaha, used blood tests to determine where Eskimos came from. In blood groups, he said, Eskimos are practically identical with American Indians. Therefore they are not descendants of Europe's ice-age population (as one theory maintains), or recent immigrants from Siberia. They are probably Indians who moved north and developed their peculiar culture. This theory, said Dr. Levine, is supported by the fact that ancient Eskimo-like relics have been reported as far south as Manhattan Island...
...Grenell has not figured out the basic cause of the dramatic variations; he thinks that there must be some sort of metabolic upset in the brain cells of schizophrenic patients. Last week he was experimenting with his little black box to find out if age, sex, pregnancy or serious illness can affect his readings...
...spiritual up lift elsewhere, there was no reason for coming to church"), Mrs. Eastman spent her last, vigorous year learning to swim, undergoing a Freudian analysis and deciding to leave her church. Her advice to her son, to "live out of yourself persistently," helped him decide at an early age "to live a life in which something should happen besides birth, death, disease and marriage...