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...baby is found dead in his crib, apparently smothered by bedclothing or a soft pillow, the mother is tortured by the feeling that she should have been more careful. Neighbors and kin often brand her as negligent. Almost all such blame and remorse are pointless, says Dr. Keith Bowden in the current Australian Medical Journal: cases of "baby smothering" are usually due to unsuspected disease...
Many infant deaths are reported as due to "accidental suffocation" because few autopsies are made, and most of these are not thorough enough. Dr. Bowden, chief pathologist for the state of Victoria and head of the Melbourne morgue, did a series of 40 detailed autopsies on babies who had died in their cribs, most of them supposedly from simple suffocation. He did not find a single case which clearly fitted the diagnosis. Sometimes, he reported, "the exact mechanism of death is obscure," but "in almost every case natural disease was present...
...morning last week, balding, bespectacled Bryant Bowden, editor of the weekly Okeechobee (Fla.) News, sauntered into the Okeechobee courthouse and stopped to eye the bulletin board in the main hall. Among the marriage-license applications, which, by Florida law, must be publicly posted for three days before a ceremony, he saw something which made him goggle. Winthrop Rockefeller, 35, of New York-the fourth of John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s five sons and one of the most eligible bachelors in the world-had stated his intention of marrying one Eva Sears, 31, also of New York...
...Editor Bowden had a bitter moment-his paper would not be published for two days. Then he remembered that he was the Okeechobee correspondent for the Associated Press. He telephoned the A.P. office in Jacksonville. A few hours later, the whole U.S. journalistic horizon glowed a bright pink with the fireworks he had touched...
Eliot: Stroke, Scholle; 7, Fisk; 6, Wulsin; 5, Dutton; 4, Fish; 3, Parsons; 2, Coulter; bow, Weston; cox, Taylor. Winthrop: Stroke, D. McAllister; 7, Saltonstall; 6, Lewan; 5, Rackerman; 4, Whitney; 3, Hale; 2, Lehner; bow, Bowden; cox, Schless...