Word: childbirth
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...last night's H.D.C. production was very good. Its legend with music of a witch-boy seeking love successfully ran from the comedy of a revival meeting ("One more chorus and the Lord'll have him") to the fantasy of witches and Conjur men, to the realism of childbirth and rape...
...complain that they could not tolerate the brash army youngsters who worked in their camp. They said soldiers had snatched their children, cut off their side curls, shaved their heads; that determined men in white coats had prodded and inspected their women, even violated the privacy of childbirth. All this, the Yemenites insisted, was against the rule...
...hearts of thousands of readers with her smoothly told little story about an English girl who wanted to become a jockey, her admirers have been waiting for another National Velvet. They got their first disappointment in 1938 when Novelist Bagnold published The Door of Life, a sentimental tale of childbirth. They are not likely to be much encouraged by her latest novel, an ambitious but brittle portrait of international nobility as it slowly succumbs to the ravages of death and taxes in postwar France...
...first episode plunged right into the teary wedding morning of Chris and Connie Thayer (Jimmy Lydon and Olive Stacey) and The First Hundred Years intends to sob-and-smile its way through in-law troubles, childbirth, alienated affections and innumerable reconciliations. Recalling the long runs of some of radio's continued dramas (One Man's Family, Life Can Be Beautiful), Adman Walter Craig has foresightedly signed his leading characters to seven-year contracts. But it's hard to stop a soap opera, once it really gets going. Says Craig: "Suppose one of the mothers-in-law should...
...find a drug or chemical which would get the same results (hence, ACTH and cortisone treatments). Dr. Louis W. Granirer of Queens General Hospital in New York City reasoned that the healing substance was probably in the blood of pregnant women, and probably stayed there for a while after childbirth...