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...feel like a father expecting his firstborn. I awaited a big, healthy, bouncing child, and find a small, puny, anemic, undernourished, undersized baby. I love the little brat, but I am disappointed...
...writing oftener to his mother. Uncle Yanez put off dying until he had seen his traveled nephew. Cousin Toné asked him to be groomsman at his wedding. Before Adamic had left Jugoslavia it was nearly time for him to be godfather to Toné's firstborn...
Grandsons, Edward Bok was proud of the fact that he encouraged his sons to make their own decisions, choose their own schools, plan their own vacations. Thus when his firstborn, tall, soft-spoken Curtis, finished at Hill School in 1915 he chose to enter Williams College. There he chose Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, distinguished himself as a varsity first baseman, was tapped for Gargoyle, the honor society whose roster includes New York's Governor Lehman, Massachusetts' Governor Ely. When the U. S. entered the War he chose to quit college for the Navy in which he attained...
...California "John Martin" fell in love with a girl several years his senior. She married someone else. To visitors at his office he exhibits a baby's shoe which he keeps on the top shelf of a book case. It belonged to the California girl's firstborn. Some 25 years ago (he does not remember exactly when) he married Mary Elliott Putnam. They have no children. His wife does not share his enthusiasm for them. Also, he says, having children of his own might destroy, by "paternal poisoning," his interest in all children...
Rich Mrs. McLean, a mining tycoon's daughter much in the Washington lime light, interested herself in the Lindbergh kidnapping as early as March 4. In 1919 she, too, had lost her firstborn; 9-year-old Vinson, the "Hundred-Million-Dollar Baby" who slept in a crib decorated with gold, gift of Leopold, King of the Belgians. In an unguarded moment her child was ground to death under an automobile's wheels. Mrs. McLean remembered Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace...