Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing of a child prodigy," Tebaldi once said, in a dimpled dig at the competition. "I was born with very normal cries-different from one of my celebrated colleagues, whose very first cries were musical and admirable." Tebaldi's first raucously normal cries sounded 36 years ago, in the fishing town of Pesaro on Italy's Adriatic coast. Renata's father, Teobaldo Tebaldi, was a theater-orchestra cellist of dashing good looks. His wife, Giuseppina, six years older than he and a former volunteer nurse, was an iron-willed woman. When Renata was only three months...
Concerning 16-year-old Diana Humphries, who shot her younger brother while her parents were out working: When will these working mothers accept the plain fact that what a child wants and needs in the home is simply a mother. And will they ever learn that no house needs carpeting, new furniture and appliances as much as a child needs the presence of a mother whose love, attention and energy will create a lively and happy atmosphere...
...fertility rate" (births per 1,000 in the child-bearing age group between 15 and 44) receded 2.3% to 116.9 during 1958's first eight months and is not likely to resume its seven-year rise, says Population Reference Bureau, until after the recession's impact on the birth rate wears...
Died. Sir Douglas Mawson, 76, Australian explorer of the Antarctic, longtime (1920-52) professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Adelaide; in Adelaide. Born in Yorkshire, Douglas Mawson went to Australia as a child, made his first journey to Antarctica in 1907 under Ernest Shackleton, was one of three men to reach the south magnetic pole. Leading his own expedition in 1911, he discovered George V Coast; and on one of the most legendary Antarctic journeys, he was the only survivor among three men, at one point had to stew his sledge dogs to stay alive...
...aeronautical engineer and military pilot, this time returns to his first love, flying. His Canadian-born hero, Johnny Pascoe, has been barnstorming the world since 1915 and, now in his 60s, operates a small airfield at back-country Buxton in Tasmania. Flying a mercy mission to rescue a child stricken with appendicitis, Pascoe crashes on a barren stretch of the Tasmanian coast. His skull is fractured, and he is tended only by the child's distraught mother, but his friends rally round. Chief of these is Ronnie Clarke, who volunteers to fly in a doctor through rough weather, over...