Word: boys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offices of four Manhattan theatres controlled by Sam H. Grisman -the Forrest (Tobacco Road), the Belasco (Golden Boy), the Hudson (Whiteoaks), the Windsor (The Two Bouquets, opening May 31)- made U. S. theatrical history this week when they started selling tickets, not only for their own shows, but for the other three as well. The system, new to the U. S., has worked out well in Europe...
...medical question that arose in Washington last week was whether to let a pinheaded (microcephalic) little boy grow up to be an idiot or to take a chance of making him normal by the drastic operation of splitting and stretching his skull. Neuropsychiatrist Daniel Delehanty Vincent Stuart Jr. found that Alden Vorrath's mind & brain were normal for his two-and-a-half years. However, occasional convulsions seemed to indicate that the skull had hardened abnormally and was cramping the child's growing brain...
Assured of the child's normal intelligence, Surgeon Herbert Hermann Schoenfeld decided to cut the boy's skull across, from temple to temple. This Surgeon Schoenfeld did last week, wedging the halves apart by three-fifths of an inch, knowing that scar tissue would close the transverse gap if the child lived, hoping that the brain would grow forward & backward as Nature must have intended. Next day, convalescent Alden Vorrath's cheerfulness promised well for his future intelligence, well for Surgeon Schoenfeld's daring surgery...
Engaged-Yehudi Menuhin, 21, concert violinist and onetime boy prodigy; and Nola Nicholas, 19, redheaded daughter of an Australian aspirin maker. Violinist Menuhin proposed to Miss Nicholas by long-distance telephone (Holland to Melbourne...
Died. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, 89, head of the Philadelphia firm of Drexel & Co. and partner of J. P. Morgan & Co.; of a heart attack; in Whitemarsh Hall, Chestnut Hill, Pa. Financier Stotesbury, after serving as a drummer boy in the Civil War, went to work for the elder Drexel at a salary of $16.60 a month. Lowest estimate of his fortune at death...