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George Bernard Shaw celebrated his 88th birthday with advice on How to Care for Babies. In the London Times he compared the late Kaiserin Augusta's model Berlin nursery with shanty homes in Ireland's Connemara: "Under the ideal Berlin conditions the infants died like flies while in Connemara there was no [infant] mortality rate because children never died there. . . . The difference was due to the fact that in Berlin the nurses tidied up the children's beds and fed and took their temperatures and weighed and measured them very efficiently . . . whereas in Connemara the mother hugged...
...squadron's time came on Oct. 31, 1943 when it swept around the Solomons bastion at Bougainville (at 31 knots) whipped close inshore and shot up Jap airfields one after the other while Marines stormed ashore at Empress Augusta Bay. Near the end of the job a Jap task force turned up. Burke, who had made a 31-knot run to refuel, was back on the job. The Little Beavers led their task force in sinking a cruiser and four destroyers that day. Navymen had never seen anything like the fury and deadly precision of the Little Beavers...
High-Strung. In Augusta, Me., Ralph E. Mosher, who won the nomination for state senator on both party tickets, reported his total campaign expenses: 18?, including 10? for a beer to "relax tension...
...Bowdoin Prize for dissertation by an undergraduate; Edwin J. Jacob '47-1, Detroit, and Carl O. Tolf, Jr., Naval ROTC, Park Ridge, Ill., Coolidge Debating Prizes of $100 each. Jack M. Fein '45, East Chicago, Ind., $75 Susan A. Potter Prize in Spanish Literature. Caldwell Titcomb '47, Augusta, Me., Carl Schurz Prize for excellence in German. Peter Flanders '47, Elizabeth Wilder Prize for excellence in German...
Divorced. By Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden (Mrs. Florence Nightingale Evlanoff), the shady side of 60; Prince Michael Evlanoff, fiftyish, of the late "international set"; in Augusta, Me. The grounds: cruel and abusive treatment...