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Specialization. In Chicago, thieves made off with 5,000 diapers from Richard De Fore's diaper service. In Haccombe, England, burglars stole some $1,500 worth of lead plating from a church roof, carefully replaced it with grey rubberoid...
...magazines now includes: School and College Management, a monthly free to 32,000 U.S. educators (it pays for itself in advertising); Baby Care Manual (circ. 360,000), a quarterly distributed free to hospitals to give to new mothers; Your New Baby (circ. 400,000), another quarterly bought by diaper services and department stores for distribution to new mothers; Senior Prom (circ. 600,000), a 25? monthly for teen-age girls; and Varsity (circ. 250,000), a 25? bimonthly for high-school and college boys...
...humbler levels, too, British ingenuity still finds a way to defy or bypass the government. A woman who was determined to found the first diaper laundry and supply service in England (The Rockabye Nappy Service at Enfield, Middlesex) could not buy diapers in quantity in England because the mills were then subsidized to make other kinds of cheap piece goods ... So she went shopping in the guise of an expectant mother . . . When clerks asked for her "green card" (a mother's special ration book), she just looked more pregnant. Anyway, despite all the government could...
...urge, he holds, is sprung by some jolt at weaning time; the adult writer's flow of words is a psychological substitute for the flow of milk he wanted and did not get, plus a recompense for all the guilt he has subconsciously felt since his diaper days. Once the analyst has worked the anxious writer back to the point where he can endorse mother's product without fear, shame or remorse, it's simply a matter of putting a fresh sheet of paper into the machine and hitting the keys...
...three W's and three D's of living," said the University of Chicago's famed Physiologist Anton J. ("Ajax") Carlson on the eve of his 75th birthday, "are work, work, work from diaper days to death. The goal of the current philosophy of the welfare state-security from cradle to grave whether you work or not-is both unscientific and unobtainable...