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...Hatch should know better than to make any set rules for babies: "All can roll off their backs before they can crawl." The only rule which experience taught this mama is that all babies are different...
...Romance, by Joyce Gary [TIME, Oct. 20], and I know that matters of factual accuracy should never be picked over in a work of art. But either Mr. Gary knows nothing about babies, or else his fictional one is unusually backward. Who ever heard of a baby able to crawl and yet just beginning to learn how to turn over on his stomach...
Babies must crawl before they can walk, but they all can roll off their backs before they can crawl. I believe Joyce Gary is all and more you say he is, but in the case of that apple-headed infant of his, his bright eye erred. Could he have had in mind a baby turtle, tortoise or even cockroach? They have that trouble. Not babies...
...perfectly round body, of which the pro portion to its limbs was about that of a tortoise. But the baby continued its struggles until, by accident, it kicked both legs and arms in the same direction, and toppled slowly over on to its face. It then began to crawl off the rug. The nurse, without taking her eyes off the book, said "Naughty." The baby, with one hand in the air, paused. Its attitude was that of Colleoni's majestic charger in Venice or George Ill's famous "copper horse" at Windsor, and it seemed to enjoy cutting...
...dark girl, who, for her part, ignored this interloper. Each pulled with all her might. The baby's clothes came apart in the middle, showing several inches of its round white body. But it made no sound. Its arms, sticking straight out like pegs, were obviously waiting to crawl again as soon as this interruption came...