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Veteran of four childless marriages, Cinemale Clark (Mogambo) Gable, 54, surprised his recent bride (TIME, July 25), sometime Cinemactress Kay Williams Gable, 37, by lighting up a cigar at a Hollywood soirée and declaiming on the glorious institution of fatherhood. Forgiving Gable for his inability to keep their secret (ETA: next May), Kay chirped: "He certainly went all ham then . . . Besides, he's started to pamper me, and I've never been pampered in my whole life." (Kay once charged that her former husband, the bibulous sugar heir, "Daddy" Adolph B. Spreckels II, beat her with...
Hildy was born in a Boston hospital in 1951 to Marjorie McCoy, a pretty, 21-year-old nursing student from Marblehead, Mass. Ten days after birth, she was taken by a childless Jewish couple, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Ellis of Brookline, Mass., who paid Marjorie's doctor and hospital bills and gave her $150 for incidental expenses. According to the doctor who arranged the adoption, Marjorie McCoy was told that the Ellises were Jewish...
...Endorsed "the practice of artificial insemination by a donor (as distinct from the husband) for childless couples provided that "it is in harmony with the beliefs of the couple and the doctor." Members of the American Society for the Study of Sterility had previously avoided taking such a policy stand, although most (excluding Roman Catholics) use the technique freely. Now they voted, 79 to 8, that it is "a completely ethical, moral and desirable form of medical therapy...
...human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think H can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked." The problem of ethics grows as it is touched by religion. Biblical authority, says Russell, is sometimes contradictory: "Should a childless widow marry her deceased husband's brother? Leviticus says no, Deuteronomy says yes (Leviticus 20: 21; Deuteronomy 25:5)." Knowledge Is Virtue. An unswerving atheist, Russell is convinced that all faiths do harm." He defines faith as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence...
...horse dealer gone blind, who finds himself isolated and bewildered in a "home," where the matron refuses to read him the racing news. In the predictable tensions of the novelette-a middle-aged headmaster takes a teen-age cousin into his home, over the jealous opposition of his elegant, childless wife-Author Taylor finds unpredictable perceptions. The prose is studded with jeweled vignettes, e.g., the school matron: "As smooth as minnows were Mrs. Lancaster's phrases of welcome; she had soothed so many mothers, mothered so many boys. Her words swam all one way in unison, but her heart...