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Presently the other passengers heard the sharp slap and the tiny squall. Genially Dr. Conly asked one woman for her turban, and in it he wrapped the eight-pound boy. For another day Mrs. Mohorovicic kept her newborn baby warm by snuggling him inside her lifebelt. Then a rescue ship drew alongside. The newborn child was handed up to a startled seaman. No assistance was needed for sturdy, 28-year-old Desanka Mohorovicic. She clambered up the cargo net, took a shower before she turned in. Last week, in a Norfolk, Va. hospital, she was feeling fine, getting ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Birth in a Boat | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Born. To Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers (Standard Oil, railways, public utilities, banks), an eight-pound grandson, child of Mrs. Arturo Peralta Ramos (Millicent Rogers). In 1927 she divorced her first husband, Count Ludwig Salm von Hoogstraeten, by whom she had a son, Peter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 26, 1928 | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Manhattan, John Kuck, of Kansas Teachers' College, picked up an eight-pound ball of iron, whirled it round him on a wire, sent it careering 68 feet ⅝ inches -a new world's record. Untired, he tossed the 16-lb. shot 48 feet 3½ inches for another record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Record | 7/19/1926 | See Source »

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