Word: childlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Massachusetts will send out its first call for childless married men sometime next month, Colonel Chester A. Furbush, State Selective Service Director, announced yesterday. Out of a pool of 4,000 potential inductees in this category, 147 will be inducted...
Husbands without children, and later 21-year olds, will fill the draft quotas for the next few months, Furbush added. January's call for 460 men will triple that for December, and childless married men are expected to constitute the major part...
...noticed that Baby Lyons' crib was empty. There was a frantic search of the hospital and grounds, police and dogs were called in, 2,000 townspeople searched alleys, trash cans, cisterns, dumps, swamps and dunes. One theory: Baby Lyons might have been kidnaped by an unbalanced, childless woman with a yearning for children.* The Michigan City hope: that such a person will give herself away by proudly showing off "my new baby...
...University of Colorado, where he made Phi Beta Kappa, Johns Hopkins, where he took his M.D., interned, and won a prized Carnegie fellowship in embryology. In the '30s, he built up a good practice in Manhattan, where he was on the staff of three hospitals. His marriage (childless) ended in divorce in 1942. That year he moved to Greenwich...
...estate and the largest private mansion (365 rooms) in England. Why had Toby waited so long? Neither he nor Tom had a chance for succession until two years ago when the eighth earl was killed in an air crash. The ninth earl is 67 and childless, and Toby (if legitimate) is his lawful heir. This week, as their lawyers droned on, Toby and Tom came to court almost identically dressed in bowler hats, stiff collars, maroon ties. Each denied any animosity toward the other; it was just a family matter that the law should clarify...