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Word: antonia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next week to catch them." So Colleen Dicks, who had been threatened with cancellation of her ninth birthday party last week because she had German measles, had a party after all. As she blew out the nine candles Colleen presumably sent a virus-laden breath over Guest of Honor Antonia Stevens. Colleen also bestowed infectious kisses on Antonia and her brother Mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Catch It If You Can | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

...party was the idea of Antonia's father, Dr. Charles Stevens, who firmly believes that the way to protect his daughters against the danger of having stillborn or malformed children as a result of German measles (rubella) infection early in pregnancy (TIME, Dec. 31) is to make sure they catch the disease long before they are married. So far the virus has not been grown well enough to prepare a vaccine, so the only way a girl can get a case -and lifelong immunity-is from direct exposure to another victim. If Antonia catches it, incubation will take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Catch It If You Can | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Born. To Princess Josephine Charlotte, 29, sister of King Baudouin of Belgium, and Prince Jean, 36, heir apparent to his mother, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg: twins, their second son and second daughter; in Betzdorf Castle, Luxembourg. Names: Jean Felix Marie Guillaume, Margaretha Antonia Marie Felicite. Weight: each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

This book, an able new translation by British Author Antonia White of the late Colette's long-famed first novel, is part of the publisher's project to bring out the author's complete works at ten-month intervals. Written by Colette when she was 22 and published in 1900, Claudine at School was an instant and scandalous success. It went through innumerable editions and became so much a byword that manufacturers flooded Paris with a Lotion Claudine, a Chapeau Claudine, a Glace-Claudine and a Parfum de Claudine. Though lacking some of the rueful insight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bad Old Golden-Rule Days | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

Maketh Not Summer. In Billings, Mont., acquitting Mrs. Antonia Romero on a charge of harboring a vicious dog after testimony from Mailman Theodore Foos that her pooch had nibbled his thigh, Judge Otis Packwood observed: "This is another case of every dog being entitled to one bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

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