Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good memory, was quick to learn his ABCs and children's verses, could pick out any tune he heard on the family organ. Nonetheless, Mrs. Buckner felt, and the family doctor agreed, that Mayo belonged in Glenwood because "He rolls his eyes and makes a peculiar noise . . . The child is not foolish but is lacking in many ways. I do not wish to send him to public school for he will not protect himself but will take any amount of ill usage and never mention it. I think he needs special management and I am unable to undertake...
Most delicate problem for the money-making Lassie team came when 71-year-old Actor George Cleveland (Gramps) died of a heart attack shortly before he was to be script-spirited away to the hospital with a broken hip. After consulting a child psychologist, Producer Robert Maxwell decided to have Gramps die onscreen of the infirmities of old age. At first the notion raised suspicion in Sponsor Campbell's Soup, which balked at the idea of a TV death based on life, came around only after Maxwell promised to expunge from the script specific references to death or dying...
Born. To Nina ("Honey Bear") Warren Brien, 24, youngest daughter of the Chief Justice, and Dr. Stuart Brien, 35, Beverly Hills obstetrician: a son, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: William Warren. Weight...
Born. To John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 40, junior Senator from Massachusetts and 1960 White House daydreamer (TIME, Dec. 2), and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy, 28: a daughter, their first child, by Caesarean section. Name: Caroline Bouvier. Weight...
...title piece of this strange short-story collection, an emotionally disturbed child kicks his father in the groin. In Don't Call Me by My Right Name a man and wife take turns beating each other up. In Plan Now to Attend a hypocritical evangelist gets blind drunk in midmorning. In Sound of Talking a crippled husband makes his wife share his suffering. Almost all the women characters are fat and fortyish; almost all the men are shamed and unhappy. The poor are most often feebleminded, the rich vicious...