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...Diaper Rush. In Chicago, diaper-service Driver Charles Hankel was delivering a bundle, heard screams, rushed to a nearby apartment, delivered a baby girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 14, 1957 | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Like most well-tended babies in the well-tended homes of Westbury, N.Y., brown-haired Peter Weinberger was sleeping off his midday bottle when his mother stepped into the house for a fresh diaper one afternoon last week. Fifteen minutes later, Beatrice Weinberger walked outside and found that 32-day-old Peter had been kidnaped. On the ground was a neatly written note demanding $2,000 ransom, to be placed near a neighbor's garage. Wrote the kidnaper: "I'm scared stiff. Do not notify the police until noon tomorrow or I'll be forced to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Higher Duty | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

Like Jerking Sodas. Bob Krauss, the second youngest of seven children in Kansas, had never cooked, changed a diaper, made up a feeding formula, or burped a baby. Before taking over Patience Dion's chores, he spent a day watching her performance, gaining the children's confidence and taking copious notes. "I had to have a dry run," he explained. "Most women have nine months to get ready for a child. I had one weekend to get ready for four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bachelor in the Kitchen | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

After the fourth day, desperation crept into the column: "First thing this morning, the John in the kids' bathroom got stopped up. Everybody had to use Mommy's and Daddy's. This is like rerouting rush-hour traffic over a goat path." Baby Ned had developed diaper rash, Melina was running a slight temperature. Sally would not eat her oatmeal, and it had looked like rain; so the wash had to be hung in the garage. Admitted the columnist: "My efficiency rating took a nose dive. I failed to get dinner started. I got the kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bachelor in the Kitchen | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

...drink a little." Finally, here is Chick Swallow, balding and growing a pot, writing: "The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds-they mature slowly." And Nickie, dreamer of superior dreams, goes his melancholy way from a failure as a rookie policeman to driver for the Tidy Didy diaper service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Funny & True | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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