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...Myrtle B. McGraw, the pretty, energetic assistant director of Babies Hospital's Normal Child Development Clinic, affiliated with the Neurological Institute. Dr. Frederick Tilney, Neurological Institute chief, thinks that civilized parents coddle their infants too long, that a child should be taught initiative and self-confidence from his earliest weeks. Dr. McGraw began to teach Johnny exercises on his 20th day. She showed him how to sit up, walk, creep. For a while he did not learn very well, but when he reached the creeping stage he began to pick up his athletic tricks rapidly. To demonstrate the validity...
...earliest aerial-wedding proposal on record was made by the French Socialist Philosopher Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon. In 1802 he learned of the death of the husband of famed Essayist Mme Anne Louise Germaine de Staël. Promptly the Comte divorced his own wife, hastened to Geneva, informed Mme de Stael that he and she, ''the most extraordinary persons who exist.'' would be married in a balloon and would create a child "who will startle the world at large." Mme de Staël said...
Died. Louise Closser Hale, 60, stage & cinema character actress, author of novels, short stories, travel memoirs; of heart failure following heat prostration; in Hollywood. Since her earliest successes in Candida (1903-04), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1907-10), she, like her longtime friend Marie Dressier (see p. 23), usually portrayed old ladies. Unlike Marie Dressler's, her old ladies were usually gentle, whimsical, timid...
...genius who, sometime in the 1860's, gave the Barbary Coast its apt title. The district then was already famed since the beginning of the Gold Rush as "Sydney Town"-named for the Australian ruffians, escaped convicts and ticket-of-leave men who clustered there around the earliest tent-dwelling Chileno (Spanish-American) harlots. These "Sydney Ducks" made up the city's first criminal element. Their grog-shops, dancehalls and bawdy houses became spawning grounds for swindlers, burglars, thugs, arsonists and murderers of infamous skill and boldness. In a 40,000 population there was an average...
...earliest contributor to be a graduate was Edward Everett Hale, Class of 1811, later president of the College, who in 1852 wrote a 40,000 word article on "George Washington" for the eighth edition. The first edition appearing in 1768 describes Cambridge as "a town, about three miles west of Boston; remarkable for a university consisting of three colleges." Since 1870 when 75 Americans contributed, of whom 21 were Harvard men, the influence of this continent has increased so that now the Encyclopedia business is owned by Sears Roebuck and Company, although the offices of the editor-in-chief...