Word: childing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Detroit press discovered a child prodigy. Youngest of a Detroit musician's three children, wide-eyed, curly-haired George Washington Lovett, 4½, has an uncanny memory. He can sing or hum 3,000 pieces of music from popular tunes to grand opera, can name and date all the U. S. Presidents, bound every European country, tell the population of every large city in the world, names and distances from the earth of all the planets, the political effects of Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown. the batting averages of all the baseball stars. He has also...
...others who dislike or disbelieve in birth control, there was encouraging news last week. Dr. Arthur George Miller, who operates a thriving women's clinic at Hobart, Ind., reported in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics that in 30,000 cohabitations 480 of his clients have not had a single unwanted child. All had practiced periodic continence according to his calendar specifications. His patients bring him a written report of the time of their menstrual periods for from six to eight months. These records, said Dr. Miller, have shown "that the old. time-honored 28-day cycle has been largely a figment...
...same time of Sex Guide, The Nudist and Tattle Tales. Though William Jay Schieffelin, vice president of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, thought "LIFE rendered a public service by picturing in a decent way the facts about the birth of a baby which every child should know," New York State's Knights of Columbus complained to New York City's five county district attorneys. Result was that District Attorney Samuel L. Foley of The Bronx arrested four news dealers for selling indecent literature. LIFE prepared to defend them, as it did dealers in Boston...
...usually triumphing over some flashier rival in the process. They tell it expertly, with no waste motions, sometimes with humor, frequently with a good deal of technical information thrown in-about steel mills, prize fights, greyhound racing, navigation. Except for Thomas Wolfe's story of racial conflict, The Child by Tiger, and Walter Edmonds' tale of a white woman captured by Indians, Delia Borst, the stories that tackle weighty subjects bog deep in sentimentality, occasionally, as in Jacland Marmur's A Woman of His Own, sink almost out of sight...
...opening of the baseball season. One hundred years ago this spring a man named Abner Doubleday laid out the first baseball diamond on the Common at Cooperstown, New York. In the century since Doubleday baseball has risen to a position second to none in the sporting world. Every American child has smacked spheroid with hickory from the time he able to coordinate. Even the French and German papers run the American major league scores each day. Babe Ruth and Dizzy Dean are probably as well known as anybody in America, both here and abroad...