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...healthy 9 ½lb. boy. Physicians thought that Juanita was probably the youngest woman ever to undergo a caesarean section. But they could not claim that she was the youngest woman ever to become a mother. Woman's capacity to bear children begins at puberty. That comes earliest in hot climates, latest in cold, with ages rang ing from 9 or 10 in some parts of South America to 17 or 18 in Lapland. A survey some years ago indicated that the average age of puberty in the U. S. was 13. Authorities believe that it is now going...
...FROM the earliest plays of O'Neill there has been a recurrent struggle to find some essence in man and his universe beyond its tragic appearance: that naturalistic appearance which is the core of "The Moon in the Caribees" and "Desire Under the Eims." We may call it a cosmic yearning for a God of eternal meaning, but this philosophical and poetic urge has seemed always to be only half in earnest, at once passionately sought for and scornfully east aside. In "Strange Interlude" there are poetic outbursts from Nina identifying God with herself as an all-compassionate Mother...
...that smart little Hugo LaFayette Black's Senate investigating committee at last got onetime Postmaster General Brown to testify before it, no holds barred. Less than a week after he had written his fellow Ohioan, Senator Simeon D. Fess, that he would face the committee "at the earliest date convenient" and that "anything I may say may be used against me in any court in the land," Walter Brown walked into the committee's hearing room in the Senate Office Building...
Plumbers. Rising to urge more cultural courses for medical students. President Robert Gordon Sproul of the University of California declared: "From earliest times the physician has been honored by society, usually because he was a person of broad learning and high ethical standards. . . . Too many doctors today are little more than plumbers...
...were saved not by German blood but by the blood of Christ!" Storm Troopers did not set upon Cardinal Faulhaber. They let him proceed to ridicule the myths of "Teuton supremacy" in ancient times-myths, said His Eminence, which, even if taken at their face value, show the earliest and purest Teutons to have been slothful, self-indulgent, quarrelsome and degraders of women whom they condemned to the lowest menial tasks. Only a cardinal, a Prince of the Church, could get away with such talk. Storm Troopers recently arrested a priest for saying mass over six Communists whose heads were...