Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After co-starring in a TV drama, two cinemoppets of yore, Jackie Coogan, 43, and Margaret O'Brien, 21, hearti'y agreed that a child actor's life can be just jolly and not a bit traumatic. Coogan's daughter Leslie Diane, 4, will soon portray Jackie as a kid in a screen biography...
Without fanfare, the Palace of Monaco issued a fluffy communiqué: "Princess Caroline will be one year old [Jan. 23]. She now has six teeth. She weighs [roughly 22 Ibs.]. She is a superb child, laughing and gay, who loves to enjoy herself and is very sociable...
Jacoba ("Joke") Haanschoten, 5, a child of a Putten factory worker, had enlarged and infected adenoids that threatened to block a Eustachian tube. Such blockage could, in turn, cause infection of the middle ear. A fortnight ago Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) went to Utrecht's City and Academic Hospital, 25 miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx...
...among Protestants and Jews. Examples: Father James B. Lloyd, 35, director of the New York Information Center, is the son of a Jewish father and a Catholic mother, both of them oldtime vaudeville headliners; Father Eugene Burke, professor of dogmatic theology at their Washington seminary, is a former Hollywood child actor...
Louise Nevelson began to create her own kind of world in wood while she was still a child. Born on the black earth of the Ukrainian steppes, she came to the U.S. with her parents when she was four, settled with them in Rockland, Me., where the interlocking arms of heavy timber and the gentle twigs of rocky bush excited her imagination. While her family made a good living out of lumber, her young hands made bits of her imaginary universe out of driftwood and scraps. She moved into New York at 18, studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller...