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...many months to find among the few homes caring for handicapped children one that would accept a baby of Petey's age and with his incurable illness. It took almost as long for Petey's mother, Lorraine Frank, to make up her mind to part with her firstborn. Only when her second baby was on the way could she make the difficult decision...
Cliff Johnson, 36, got the idea for the show in 1941. One morning, when, his firstborn, Sandra, was only 18 months old, he took her to the studio with him, was officiating on a telephone quiz show when Sandra piped up: "Daddy, I have to go to the bathroom!" The listener response was so great that Cliff thought: "By golly, this could really be something." But radio was not yet ready to let a family run loose on the air. Besides, Cliff didn't yet have a big enough family. By 1947, the Johnsons had three more children...
...great to be alive, thought Vag, reluctantly loosening his grip on the pillow. Especially, he thought as he sprung out of bed, especially on Saturday morning. What ho for football, he thought. What ho for the American Way of Life. What ho. Some day he would take his firstborn, Young Vag, to the Stadium and show him the great beating heart of America...
Last week Eva's firstborn, George James Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 63, known as Toby, appeared before Justice Pilcher in London's High Court to claim that his birth was legitimate. Toby asked to be legally recognized as the elder brother of Eva's second son, Captain William Thomas George Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 46, known as Tom. Tom is recognized as the present heir to the ancient earldom of Fitzwilliam, its $2,000,000 estate and the largest private mansion (365 rooms) in England. Why had Toby waited so long? Neither he nor Tom had a chance for succession...
...radio at Xylotombou, Cyprus. A young Jew scurried along the camp's muddy paths, blowing a trumpet as he ran. To Abraham Greenberg, the sound was like that of the trumpets that brought down the walls of Jericho long ago. Abraham ran to tell his wife Zahava. Their firstborn, Arie, was cutting his first teeth; he would be a Jew of Israel, the first of Abraham's family in centuries not to have another nationality. Abraham and Zahava and others in the camp built a bonfire; around it they danced the Hora to celebrate the end of their...