Word: diaperer
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Singing Commercial. In Westchester County, N.Y., General Diaper Service added ex-Milkman Mike Maloney to its staff. His job: crooning lullabies by phone to fretful babies...
...illuminating thing about "Solo" is that on page 243, in a book of 390 pages, the protagonist. Gene Fowler, is 17 years old. Most of the book, then, is about a boy who apparently took notes on the margins of his diaper and kept a careful diary long before he reached puberty--how else could conversations heard at the age of eight be so precisely reported? It's all reminiscent of the passages in the egocentric Thomas Wolfe's "Look Homeward Angel:" "Lying darkly in his crib, washed, powdered, and fed, he thought quietly of many things before he dropped...
...herself accredited as a foreign correspondent, stocked up on baby clothes, practiced pinning a diaper or two on some small relatives, and set sail. In Holland she had her first international labor pains. The adoption laws were much too strict. She went on to Rouen. There she found a baby she wanted, but there were drawbacks. Little Patrick was colored, and anyway his father, a G.I. from Brooklyn, wanted...
Last week Ann and Patrick II arrived at Washington's National Airport to be greeted by a cloud of newsmen and diaper-service salesmen. Wildly enthusiastic about her first, Ann is once again expecting. But second babies, they say, are always easier. Patrick's prospective sister, 2½ weeks old, is ready and waiting in England. Delivery: some time this summer...
...hours drag on, she is even forced to change a diaper, flip a flapjack, and act toward the hungry, amorous hero as if she were really a nice, contented matron. There are also assorted minor plot complications, thanks to which the players cheerfully cheat, blackmail and blood-squeeze each other like so many bargain-basement Borgias who, out of deference to the holiday season, have decided to draw the line just short of poison. Warner Bros., blithely presenting them as likable people and their behavior toward each other as funny, evidently assume that enough people will feel that way about...