Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first such ceremony in the White House since Benjamin Harrison's granddaughter was baptized there in 1889. Not so, sirs. I attended the christening of a grandson of President Franklin Roosevelt's at the White House. The grandchild was John Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt's only child by her second husband. The christening took place on the second floor of the White House; four generations of Roosevelts were there: the President's mother, the President and Eleanor, their daughter Anna and her husband (since dead), and, of course, little Johnny, whom the President kept waggling a finger...
...states in the Union spend less per child on education than Arkansas, but an Arkansas millionaire is determined to give the state one school system that will be the envy of the nation. Winthrop Rockefeller, who has lived in Arkansas since 1953, has offered the Morrilton school district an educational bonanza-enough money (about $2,500,000) to help the citizenry create a truly model school system. As chairman of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, Rockefeller "is interested in education as a means of improving the standard of living in Arkansas and attracting more industry to the state." Last week...
...took superb command in Maurice Evans' production of The Cradle Song, a fable about a love affair between an abandoned infant and the nuns of a Spanish convent. Visually, it was as attractive as anything seen this year, with the beautiful faces of novices hanging raptly over the child's crib and their lullabies blending with the plainsong devotions from the chapel. The play was dreamlike, as sweet as a sugar bun and scarcely more substantial, but it was also sunlit with innocence and warmly acted by Judith Anderson. Evelyn Varden. Deirdre Owens and. particularly, by Ireland...
Born. To Peter Ustinov, 35, pudgy British playwright (The Love of Four Colonels) and cinemactor (Quo Vadis, We're No Angels), and Suzanne Cloutier, 27, Canadian-born cinemactress: their second child, his third, a son; in London. Name: Igor Nicholas. Weight...
Born. To Isaac Stern, 35, top-ranking, Russian-born U.S. violinist, now on tour of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, May 14), and Vera Lindenblit Stern, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Shira...