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...Naomi's house where he is waiting for his mother. Karen has married the man to whom she was first engaged, and since the child she has had by him has died and she can never have another, she has told her husband about her firstborn...
Last week the belief was further discredited when, as a result of questioning the parents of 582 malformed children born in Philadelphia. Drs. Douglas Power Murphy & Milton Mazer concluded that the most numerous spoilage of the family tree does not occur among firstborn. By means of analytical charts published in the American Medical Association Journal those Philadelphia physicians demonstrated that in large families the eldest four are usually the soundest. The fifth and sixth are occasionally malformed. Women who have been pregnant nine or more times produce three times as many errors as does the average woman...
Joyous Mr. Astor decided to buy an 80-ft. yacht and to call his firstborn, if a male, ''plain William." Joyous Count Haugwitz was felicitated at Karlsbad by a royal wire from his Danish sovereign King Christian X. Anticipating an event far more momentous and expensive than those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled...
...door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. . . . For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. . . . And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. . . . and it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the first...
Meantime, in California, Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh shrank from further contact with the crime which had taken their firstborn, said they were "not much interested" in the case. Reluctantly Col. Lindbergh agreed to return to New York this week to be present as the plaintiff when the extortion case of People v. Hauptmann goes to the Grand Jury...