Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work. She wasn't mawkish: her work is grim and reminiscent of Goya's Disaster of War. The grimness is lifted only now and then by a look of suprise on the face of a young girl or by a mother laughing as she plays with her child. Otherwise we realize that to Kollwitz the joys in this life were its responsibilities: the comfort we give to our children or the outstretched hand to our fellow...
Born. To Luis Anastasio Somoza de Bayle, 33, President of Nicaragua since the assassination of his father. Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, last month, and Isabel Urcuyo de Somoza: a fifth son, sixth child; in Managua, Nicaragua. Name: Heraldo. Weight...
Born. To Enos Bradsher ("Country") Slaughter, 40, balding, longtime (1938-53) St. Louis Cardinals outfielder, who joined the New York Yankees last August, broke up the third World Series game with a home run, and Fifth Wife Helen Spiker Slaughter, 26: a daughter, their first child (his second); in Kansas City, Mo. Name: Gaye Arlene. Weight...
...Problem Child Is Made. Queen Victoria could never understand why parents as admirable as herself and Prince Consort Albert should have had an heir like "Bertie." Most of the people at court took instinctively to the "fair little lad," but, according to palace gossip, the Queen thought him "stupid" from the very start, and "in all [her] published letters which range over the Prince's childhood, there is not one word of praise for his character, not a single endearing anecdote, not a trace of pride or pleasure in his personality." Bertie detested pedantry and loved people. His parents...
...play with other boys. His first tutor, Eton's Henry Birch, was ordered to report in detail on the little boy's failings. When, instead, Birch became fond of Bertie, he was sacked. Birch's successor, Frederick Gibbs, had everything that the creation of a problem child demands. He kept "story books of all kinds" out of Bertie's reach, reported regularly that the frustrated little boy was "excited," "disobedient," "very angry," "rude," "half silly." Bertie responded, complained Gibbs, by "throwing stones in my face...