Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From a young father-to-be, escorting his pregnant wife, came the ultimate observation. Said he: "The child will be born an American. We hope it will adopt...
...early in May when Ellen Moore, 22, a pretty young housewife, headed for the Child Welfare Clinic in the bleak Northumberland mining town of Wallsend. Two months pregnant, she had her 16-month-old firstborn, Paul, in his pram. As a truck carrying a load of tree trunks took a nearby corner, one of the lashings parted. A soft, log struck Mrs. Moore a glancing blow on the head, and she fell unconscious...
...expertly staffed General Hospital in Newcastle, five miles away, she was given 48 hours to live. Then, as Ellen Moore kept on fighting for her life, George Frederick Rowbotham, one of Britain's most noted brain specialists, took charge. He had no hope of saving her unborn child, but he hoped to save her life. As his patient's temperature began to rise dangerously, he had her swathed in bags of ice and dosed her with drugs. Her temperature fell to 85°, where it was kept off and on for weeks...
...this tender story was revived by a Spanish author, José Maria Sanchez-Silva, in the form of a novel not yet published in the U.S. Now it has been converted by Ladislao Vajda, a Hungarian director working in Spain, into a film as simple and sincere as a child's tear. The actors, especially Marcelino (Pablito Calvo) and Brother Cookie (Juan Calvo), play with an easy matter-of-factness that makes the transition from natural to supernatural almost disappear. The hard Spanish land and the bare Spanish sky clamp the mystical theme between them, as in a vise...
...wealthy man, beautiful enough to make him a happy man, pious enough to make him a good man. "Bozzy's" solemn efforts to fill this tall order make scandalously funny reading. He was already the father of a bastard son (who died in infancy), and now a second child was on the way as a result of his "licentious passion" for one Mrs. Dodds (a "sweet little mistress . . . admirably formed for amorous dalliance" -but "she debases my dignity" and "costs me a great deal of money...