Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...described and tagged with the forbidding name of retrolental fibroplasia-because it seemed to be a growth of abnormal, fibrous tissue behind the lens of the eye. Doctors could not agree on whether the disease was new, or had simply gone unnoticed. Some said that the tiny victims were born with R.L.F.; others that it developed later...
...young team of Baltimore eye specialists, Dr. William Councilman Owens and his wife, Dr. Ella Uhler Owens, decided to begin at the beginning. In 1945 they started to study every baby weighing 4½ pounds or less born at Johns Hopkins Hospital or taken to its nursery. They observed 214 in two years. No baby had R.L.F. at birth, but five developed...
Unlike Founder Sill and retiring Headmaster Father William Scott Chalmers (who was California-bound to take over North Hollywood's Harvard School), lean, 41-year-old John Oliver Patterson has never been a monastic. Born in Goldfield, Nev., he was originally trained as an architect at the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After two years as a practising architect the new "pater" left his drawing board for the ministry, now has 15 bustling years in Midwestern parishes behind him. In the last eight years he has swelled his Madison, Wis. congregation from...
...comic favorite in the oldtime vaudeville team of ("Positively") Mr. Gallagher* & ("Absolutely") Mr. Shean, which wowed audiences in the '20s (they played 67 weeks in the 1923-24 Ziegfeld Follies^ made their 500-odd verses household jingles) ; in Manhattan. A veteran of 60 years in show business, German-born Al Shean first turned to legitimate theater in 1912 (he also made some 20 Hollywood films), scored his biggest Broadway hit 25 years later as the Benedictine monk in Father Malachy's Miracle...
...story of Tennyson's vast Victorian lifetime is like the story of a civilization in Toynbee: the whole age is embodied in it. Born in 1809, he was descended from the yeomanry and the county families that together bred England's great middle class. The north-country parsonage of his childhood tumbled with ten brothers & sisters; at seven he had to be able to chirp from memory the four books of Horace's Odes...