Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already exposed to too much radiation. Last week, at the first International Co'ngress of Radiation Research in Burlington, Vt., Brookhaven National Laboratory's Dr. Howard J. Curtis reported evidence that a single modern fluoroscopic examination of a pregnant woman's pelvis will shorten her child's life by two weeks...
...Hiroshima died. Others congregated around the 10-ft. statue of Schoolgirl Sadako Sasaki. Sadako was two years old when the bomb exploded, and only half a mile from the explosion's center of impact. Yet she was apparently unharmed, and grew into a lively, likable child. In 1955, one month before graduating from grammar school, she developed the extreme lethargy that is the forerunner of "atom sickness." Hospitalized, Sadako began folding scraps of paper into flying cranes-Japanese legend holds that a sick person who makes 1,000 paper cranes will recover. Sadako got only...
Born. To Harry Lillis ("Bing") Crosby, 54, patriarchal tycrooner, horseman, low-handicap golfer, and Cinemactress Kathy (Operation Mad Ball) Grant (formerly Olive Kathryn Grandstaff of West Columbia, Texas), 24: a son, their first child (he has four other sons by his first wife, the late Musicomedienne Dixie Lee); in Hollywood. Name: Harry Lillis III. Nickname: Tex. Weight...
...studio flats, put them all together and spelled not only MOTHER but all the other ingredients of smalltown nostalgia. It promises to be profitable: the first 15 of the hardy Andy episodes were among the most successful series in movie history, grossing $73,850,000 and making Child Star Rooney the nation's top box-office draw...
Mary Cass, a Northwestern co-ed during the regular year, plays Estelle, the full-bodied French seductress who murdered her child in the presence of its father. Miss Cass holds herself well; she gestures effectively; she controls her voice; and she has the advantage of beauty. The only complaints, and they are picayune, are occasional lapses when she isn't involved in the dialogue, and a tendency to grimace too often...