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Even the police are helpful: the sheriff will often send a deputy to wake a hunter at 4 a.m. if he forgets his alarm clock. The only sour face belongs to the game warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason...
...swollen ankle or an extra pound of weight to trouble her. There is no question but that her gentle gestation will terminate in the totally painless birth of a perfect, silky-haired baby who, like Mother, will never be bothered by anything so indelicate as diaper rash or colic...
...invited," read the program, "to greet and praise De Koven in the Ladies' Lounge. Please refrain from criticizing the Maestro, for it never does any good and only gives De Koven the colic." At Manhattan's Town Hall last week, that injunction served to introduce Classical Disk Jockey Seymour De Koven, an evangelist of the baroque, a man dedicated to the proposition that scarcely any music worth listening to was written after 1828, the year Schubert died. After him, practically no composers were able to write decent "barococo" music, and the public had to settle for "nobodies like...
Whenever their babies come down with the colic or break out in bumps, thousands of U.S. mothers turn to the unworried advice of Dr. Benjamin Spock. Yet Dr. Spock has his own anxieties, and last week they were written all over his kindly face as he appeared, with a little girl, in a full-page advertisement in the New York Times. Said the ad written by Spock: "I am worried. Not so much about the effect of past tests but at the prospect of endless future ones. As the tests multiply, so will the damage to children-here and around...
...saddle-soap operas. Bond shares the billing with a new guest star every week, and with a capable young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert, he has a grin like a Texas river, a mile wide and an inch deep, and a laugh that can shatter a klieg light. He also has guts. When a backing horse broke his hip, Bond bellered for his Scotch and milk (the milk...