Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Farouk I. King of Egypt, 18; and his childhood friend, Sasi Naz Zulficar, 16-year-old daughter of a judge in the Alexandria Mixed Court of Appeals, granddaughter of onetime Premier Mohamed Said Pasha; in Cairo. The wedding date, Miss Zulfkar's 17th birthday, is almost a year away...
...Author Adamic's last book, The Cradle of Life (TIME, Sept. 28, 1936), is a story modeled after Maximilian Vanka's childhood and youth...
Died. Colonel Jacob Schick, 59, inventor of the Schick Dry Shaver; of a kidney ailment; in Manhattan. It was his theory that by losing awareness of time he could live to be 120. Born in Ottumwa, Iowa, he went to work in a copper mine in his early childhood, became an Alaska prospector at 20; enlisted in the U.S. Army for the War with Spain; in the World War supervised transport of troops through England. An inveterate inventor of boats, machines, engineering methods, he speeded up gas mask production by a device enabling one girl to fill 20 masks...
France's own accounts of his childhood should not be taken too literally, warns Author Dargan. Only child of a famed Paris bookseller who rose from an illiterate peasant, little Anatole arrived at his first opinions by taking the opposite side from his father, one of whose opinions was that his son would never amount to much. His mother, who tucked him into bed until his marriage at 33, was the first woman to spoil him; of the others, he remembered back to the ''fair ladies" who, while he was still in his cradle, aroused his "precocious...
...born in St. Louis, raised in Indianapolis, educated in Chicago. Since childhood he speaks with a Hoosier twang, as does Anna Fishbein whom he has known since childhood. She accompanies him on all his trips around the country, and on the road acts as his personal secretary and purchasing agent (ties, shirts...