Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suspicious Police. Talamas' ordeal began one night when his wife was in a hospital in labor with their first child. Talamas rushed into the streets at 2:30 a.m. to seek a specialist. Police arrested him because he lacked a curfew pass, released him after a few hours. The cops learned that earlier that evening three men appeared outside a gendarmery outpost near Port-au-Prince, and as a pretext to get near said they were seeking a doctor to help a woman in childbirth, then suddenly opened fire, killing four sentries. To the suspicious police, already hysterically fearful...
...Casey's full-flavored autobiography. In an arrangement by Paul Shyre, six people seated in front of lecterns recount a late Victorian Dublin childhood that ends when a twelve-year-old boy has "learned poetry and . . . kissed a girl." The boy was not just any Dublin child-beyond the gifted writer he would some day be, he was threatened with blindness; and in a shabby and fiercely Protestant home was watching his father...
...already hard-beset mother was caught between the doctor's strict orders that the child be kept out of doors and the rector's badgering insistence that he go to school, Sunday school and church. The climax of childhood comes with Sean being caned at school and rebelliously striking back...
...Child in the arms of a wrought-iron apple tree...
Born. To Harry (Harold George) Belafonte Jr., 30, Harlem-born calypso crooner, and his second wife, Julie Robinson Belafonte, 29, pigtailed, Russian-Jewish dancer (Katherine Dunham troupe): a son, their first child (his third); in Manhattan. Name: David Michael...