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Five have disconnected their telephones as the first move in elaborate fall marital preparations. One summed up the group attitude with the view that it was easier to face married life with a college degree to loan on. All agreed it would be easier to diaper junior with hands free from a Hymarx Outline...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Reenforcements Roll In | 7/1/1947 | See Source »

...motherhood to swimming. A trained nurse teaches expectant mothers what to expect, talks them out of old wives' tales. After a wife has her baby, she graduates into classes on infant and child care, given by experts. In evening classes, expectant fathers can learn to bathe, powder and diaper rubber dolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fertile Valley | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

...Chicagoan with bright blue eyes and bright new ideas, always wanted to be a nurse. But after she started to work, she had some doubts. Most of her patients were babies and they were usually a little soggy. So, off-duty, she tried to develop a waterproof outer diaper. She finally devised a "Dri-ette," two pieces of flannel bonded to a waterproof center which eliminated the objections of many mothers to rubber pants. The Dri-ette was not patentable but it did the trick. Babies could get wet, but nobody else would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: High & Dry | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...doddering 40,000 to more than 86,000, challenging enough to keep the Denver Post (circ. 192,991) on its toes. Besides dispensing free advice, Molly collects snapping turtles, pianos and goldfish from people who don't want them for those who do. During the war she gathered diaper pins for G.I. wives, once collected 500 glass eyes for soldiers. Her column appears on the woman's page, but Molly cannily lures male readers with subheads like "She Doesn't Pull the Shades Down"; "He's Full of Ginger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: From Molly | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

Vital Industry. In Miami Beach, the National Institute of Diaper Services postponed its annual convention, gave its reason: diapermen were too busy with a "bumper crop of babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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