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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Babies have been born sucking their thumbs and the habit during the first two years of a child's life is no cause for alarm, provided the baby is healthy and well-developed. Thumbguards, says Dr. Kanner, do not break a child of thumbsucking. He will stop the habit if he has toys and other children to play with...
...Born in Düsseldorf, educated in Switzerland and trained for five years by Max Reinhardt, she went to Hollywood on contract last year and had apparently been completely overlooked when Myrna Loy, after the picture had been in production two days, walked out of Escapade. Luise Rainer was popped into the part so hurriedly that M-G-M did not even have time to think up an intelligent publicity campaign. First described thoughtlessly as a rival to MGM's Greta Garbo, whom she resembles less than anyone else on the screen, Luise Rainer was next advertised...
...good Jew is Comedian Eddie Cantor, born Izzy Iskowitch on Manhattan's East Side. He helps Jewish charities raise funds, runs a camp for poor children at Cold Spring-on-Hudson, N. Y., has endowed a fellowship at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Sober and articulate, Eddie Can.tor last week addressed a convention of B'nai B'rith in Los Angeles as follows...
...crash from which he would have emerged with nothing but bruises had not his fuel burst into flame. A new fuel designed to stop such tragedies was demonstrated this week at New York University's Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics by its inventor, a towering, beefy, Prussian-born chemist named Adolph Prussin. The fuel, called "Solene," is gasoline which has been turned into a solid...
...Author, Born 42 years ago in New Rochelle, of old U. S. stock somewhat similar to that traced in American Family, Author Baldwin began to write at the age of six, when she turned out a play characteristically called The Deserted Wife. Neighbors in the quiet Fort Hamilton district of Brooklyn knew her as the wife of a Brooklyn businessman, the mother of three sons and a daughter, unobtrusively active in Brooklyn Junior League affairs, when the sensational success of Alimony in 1928 suddenly lifted her from the status of routine magazine contributor to that of a popular favorite...