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People who practice "planned parent hood" believe that babies should be born at two-year intervals. This cherished tenet is wrong - if Johns Hopkins' Dr. Nichol son Joseph Eastman is right. Last week he asserted (in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology) that the two-year interval was deduced from obsolete statistics...
After riffling through records of some 35,188 obstetric cases, Dr. Eastman concluded that: i) a baby born twelve months after a previous birth has just as good a chance to be healthy as one that has had to wait longer; 2) the longer the interval between births, the more likelihood of a mother's suffering from a type of pregnancy poisoning associated with high blood pressure. Reason: the shorter interval enables mothers to have more children during youth, the best child-bearing time...
Surprised Planned Parenthood officials last week admitted that the Eastman report had knocked the props from under their Two-Year Plan, thought that new research on the question is much needed...
...educators tried feebly to make teaching tools of them decades ago. Even now they are a mere educational side show. But last week the University of Chicago gave signs of leading a movement into the main tent. The University's President Robert Maynard Hutchins accepted as a gift Eastman Classroom Films, Inc., a $1,000,000 outfit which has been pretty much in the doldrums because the educational buyers of Eastman's raw film have never liked the competition of finished Eastman reels...
...Eastman now becomes part of the University's Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc., which has also acquired from Western Electric the $3,000,000 ERPI Classroom Films. All told, Britannica can distribute about 500 films, graded from primary schools to teachers' colleges.* This makes Britannica the biggest thing in its field. And it agrees with film men who think it is small potatoes compared to postwar possibilities...