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...question that arose in Washington last week was whether to let a pinheaded (microcephalic) little boy grow up to be an idiot or to take a chance of making him normal by the drastic operation of splitting and stretching his skull. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel Delehanty Vincent Stuart Jr. found that Alden Vorrath's mind & brain were normal for his two-and-a-half years. However, occasional convulsions seemed to indicate that the skull had hardened abnormally and was cramping the child's growing brain...
...program says "Members of the Courtney School have taken tables"--and here they come; with the plainness of youth in their faces they hurry self-consciously down the aisle. Betty Alden has left her Beacon Hill underworld to jot notes on criminals at large and passes by to speak to the Herald's music critic. Tomorrow we will see in her column, "Miss So-and-So came down from the North Shore and wore sophisticated black . . . . Miss Snitz, one of our most charming buds, was enjoying herself among the older people," etc. The whole evening--the music, the audience...
...idea of the club came from this winter's managerial group, including Jackson Bird '38, basketball, Alden S. Blodgett, Jr. '38, hockey, George P. Byrne, Jr. '38, swimming, and George H. Spencer '38, track. F. Stanton Deland Jr. '36, assistant to the Director of Athletics, presided at the foundation meeting...
...half years ago Edward Lynn, a grateful MacDowell Colony alumnus who now writes radio scripts in Hollywood, and Mrs. Natalie Alden Putnam, a Hollywood piano teacher, hit on the idea of holding an annual radio festival in honor of the composer. Choosing the date of MacDowell's death for their Festival...
...University of Michigan's Clements Library of early American documents, Teaching Fellow John Alden last week was rummaging through the papers of British General Thomas Gage, came upon George Washington's handwriting. Rushing to librarians with his find, he learned he had turned up a hitherto unknown piece of Washingtoniana...