Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aramaic in "a very pleasant hand." It tells how Noah's father Lamech (son of Methuselah) was married to his own sister-a custom necessitated in earliest times by the shortage of women. Lamech, according to the scroll, began to suspect that Baby Noah was not his own child-apparently with good reason. At birth the child "rose up in the hands of the midwife and conversed with the Lord of Righteousness." His body was "white as snow and red as the blooming of the rose," his hair was "white as wool," and when he opened his eyes they...
...washing machines, 1,640,000 home dryers. Though sales of durable goods slipped some 5%, consumers bought so much more in soft goods (food, clothes, etc.) that overall retail sales jumped 2% for the year, including 1,102,000,000 tranquilizing pills (six pills for every man, woman and child in the U.S.) for those who worried about paying their bills...
Born. To Carroll Baker, 22, star of Baby Doll (TIME, Dec. 24), and Jack Garfein, 26, theatrical director: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Blanche. Weight...
Born. To Dean Martin, 39 (born Dino Crosetti), limp-tonsilled songbird and ex-straightman for Cinemoron Jerry Lewis, and Jeanne Biegger Martin, 30, onetime Miami model, his second wife: a daughter, their third child (his seventh). Name: Gina. Weight...
...work with a 30-year study of 1,400 California schoolchildren with IQs past the threshold of genius (140-plus); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palo Alto, Calif. Tester Terman's findings: his bright children grew up healthier, slightly wealthier and better employed than the average child, but the group contained "no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president . . . gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys ... In achieving eminence, much depends on chance...