Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John, 21, suffered from a childhood predilection for wringing the necks of chickens. Last year when two little Bath girls were found strangled, John, who had already been certified as feebleminded, was declared mentally unfit to stand trial and committed to Broadmoor. There, he behaved so well that he was given the privilege of wearing civilian clothes...
Delayed effects of measles, mumps and other childhood illnesses may be causes of mental and old age diseases, Brigadier General James Stevens Simmons, Dean of the School of Public Health, suggested yesterday...
...Early childhood social motives was the first study undertaken by the Laboratory. These social motives, such as drives to dependency, aggression and competition, set the patterns of living, and must be understood before the schools can assist in child development...
Since then Stace has thought through a personal conflict which his article only partially illumined-one between his intellectual "antireligious" belief and "a fundamental religious feeling" retained since childhood. In a book published this week, Time and Eternity (Princeton; $3), he shows the other side of the coin which he held up to his readers 3½ years ago. He calls it "a defense of religion"; more exactly, it is a philosopher's admission that there is a God independent of nature -although experience of Him need not be tied to a religious creed...
...give the impression that Mrs. Roosevelt's affiliation and sympathy for left-wing characters and causes was something that she played with in her middle-aged childhood but which she has cast aside since she has donned her grandmotherly Mother Hubbard. The record shows otherwise . . . She has done her best to ridicule Chambers, Bentley and Budenz. To this day she has never publicly repudiated Hiss...