Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gratitude for their benefactor, 25,000 yelping children and their mothers clambered and danced through the meadows of Manhattan's summer-striped Central Park. It was a grand picnic-the 22nd annual June Walk of the Monongahela Club. Round-faced, genial James J. Hines eased a piggybacking child from his shoulders, doffed his straw boater, wiped the sweat from his face and said proudly: "Kids who came to the first of these things are voters now. They're not all voting my district, but they're voting somewhere...
Ears, Eyebrows. Much plastic surgery involves correcting abnormalities about the face. A child may be born with a malformed ear, or no ear. Surgeon Gillies sometimes uses beef cartilage as the base for sculpturing a new ear with flaps of the child's skin, but he prefers to get cartilage from the mother's ear. This can be done without disfiguring her, and as Gillies notes tartly, she can wear her hair low to cover the scar-which her son cannot. Such grafts have lasted 15 years. In one remarkable case, Gillies used part of a woman...
Born. To Norman Mailer, 34. novelist-chronicler of American sexual and other frustrations (The Naked and the Dead, The Deer Park), and second wife Adele, 31: a daughter, their second child; in Manhattan. Name: Danielle Leslie. Weight...
Born. To Jerome Hines (real name: Heinz), 35, handsome, towering (6 ft. 6½ in.) Metropolitan Opera basso, and Italian-born Soprano Lucia Evangelista, 34: their third child, third son; in Newark. Name: John Matthew. Weight...
...sentence has a Hemingway ring, and not by chance. Social historians could do worse than examine this obituary for evidence of how Hemingway has influenced a whole generation of child actors who have tried to live in the image of his heroes. The book is shot through with the sentimental stoicism of the Hemingway man, and with the hedonist worship of the "art of living," which calls for everything just so-the old-fashioneds must have a touch of honey, the mustache scissors must be of 18th century French make, even the final, fatal razor must be a Rolls...