Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little pitcher with the biggest ears and part in the show is Frankie Thomas, 15, a solemn, bushy-haired youth of theatrical parentage who has created a large following in the past five seasons in such plays as Wednesday's Child and Remember the Day. An even younger member of Seen But Not Heard's cast is a puckish 10-year-old named Raymond Roe. In his impersonation of a peewee hypochondriac who gains his end by holding his breath for protracted periods, he rises far above his material, shows a natural aptitude for high comedy...
Late in November in the year 1825, a child was born in Paris who was to be one of the greatest neurologists of the 19th Century. Jean Martin Charcot became professor of pathological anatomy at the University of Paris, started a neurological clinic at the old Salpetriere (public hospital for the aged and insane) which wielded a potent influence in medicine and psychiatry. Charcot pooh-poohed the antique physiological theories of hysteria, probed the psychological sources through hypnotism. He differentiated the manifestations of locomotor ataxia, published researches on many another malady from gout to chronic pneumonia, some of which bear...
...Lily Kenny, 33, claims to be the mother of 14 (seven living), of whom twelve were born within Toronto's city limits. City records show only ten registered within the decade. Rats killed one Kenny child. If the contest judges rule out her two unrecorded infants, Mrs. Kenny still has a good chance to break the tie and pocket Bachelor Millar's $500,000 by delivering the child she is now carrying before All Souls...
Among these "advisory editors," whose billing in the magazine carefully relieves them of responsibility for its contents, are Cornell's Livingston Farrand, Wisconsin's President Glenn Frank, Author Angelo Patri, Chief Scout James E. West, many a child psychologist, teacher, pediatrician...
...Hecht, who wanted to be a publisher and was fond of children, launched a monthly magazine "to educate parents" which he named Children, The Magazine for Parents. Sanguine Mr. Hecht hoped that in time 100,000 U. S. parents would subscribe to his journal of tips, stories, articles on child health, psychology, care. This week the tenth anniversary number of Children, The Magazine for Parents, now called simply Parents' Magazine, went to 370,000 readers. Franklin Roosevelt sent congratulations. Publisher Hecht was prepared to guarantee his advertisers that by next year Parents' Magazine would circulate 410,000 copies...