Word: childlessness
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...greatest difficulties in treating childless couples is not medical but just stubborn male pride. Many men refuse to believe that they may be to blame and will not submit to examination or treatment. Last week, the publishers of Human Fertility and Problems of the Male were doing a humming business in mail orders from laymen. But not one writer admitted that he wanted the book for himself. It was always a cousin or a brother or a friend who needed...
...studied medicine at Harvard. The first years of Phumiphon's life were spent in the suburban atmosphere of Brookline, Mass. A few years later, after his father's death, he had moved with his mother, sister, and elder brother Ananda to Lausanne, Switzerland. Six years after that childless King Prajadhipok abdicated in favor of his nephew Ananda...
...William III was on the way? Last week, after brooding darkly about the whole thing, Columnist Hearst scratched back at Columnist March: "Friends will be pleased and amazed to learn that Newsgal Evelyn Peyton Gordon at long last is expecting." No one was more amazed than fortyish, married and childless Evie; she was too mad even to scratch back. The sound of strife on Washington's back fence died away. Titillated readers of the society columns would have to go to the right cocktail parties to find out that the stork was orbiting over neither of the contestants...
Loomis School's Nathaniel Batchelder, 69, stiff-backed headmaster of the Connecticut boys' school. Harvardman Batchelder helped plan the school which five childless members of Connecticut's Loomis family (merchants, lawyers, teachers, divines) decided to found so "that some good may come to posterity through the harvest ... of our lives." As the squirish "Mr. B.", he spent 35 years of his life turning Loomis into one of the top U.S. prep schools...
...married couples who are childless but want children, Anatomist Edmond J. Farris, head of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute, last week offered some advice on fertility. He told the American Urological Association's annual meeting in Los Angeles...