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...Born. To Zog I, 43, Mohammedan King of the Albanians; and his wife, Catholic Queen Geraldine, 23; a son; their first child and Albania's Crown Prince; in Tirana...
Said Dr. Martin, warming to his subject, a mother's emotions have great influence upon her child's teeth, even before the baby is born. A woman who is anxious, apprehensive or resentful during pregnancy may not bother to eat tooth-forming foods (calcium, phosphorus and vitamins). After the child is born, she must be the thermostat to the "emotional climate of the home." A mother who pampers her child never lets him get his teeth into anything. Consider the Eskimos, said Dr. Martin. They "use their teeth for everything, including softening frozen leather," and Eskimos rarely suffer...
Polo is an ancient game of India, but indoor polo was born in a Manhattan riding academy in 1910. Today the Indoor Polo Association boasts 1,200 players good enough to have official handicaps, a national championship that draws galleries as large as any other indoor sport...
...Goodman kids drank coffee as soon as they were weaned. Milk cost too much for a Chicago garment-worker's family. Goodman recalls that he first met the late great Trumpeter Beiderbecke on Aug. 8, 1923, because that was the day the youngest Goodman, Jerome, was born. The first band under Goodman's direction was a pickup combination that he took to Cannon Club for a 1929 Princeton house party. His first national publicity, on the occasion of his 1935 Sunday concert, while playing in Chicago, is attributed to TIME...
...friend Cyrus Eaton of Republic Steel Corp., he became a Republic director. When in 1932 a change in Koppers management sent John Brookes back to Washington to practice corporation law, he remained a trusted adviser of Republic's present boss, Tom Girdler. In Washington (where he was born in 1888) John Brookes is best known as a partygoer and a golfer who plays with professionals...