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...Dayton Museum of Natural History Employee Michael Spock, a free copy of the bestselling (some 10 million copies) manual that has helped mold countless U.S. kiddies from cradle to kindergarten. Wise Dr. Spock promised to steer clear of ad-lib footnotes. Said he: "Don't meddle in your grandchildren's upbringing...
...then a careless Pantagraph printer may space out a short front-page column with a local item, but no printer commits the sin twice. Besides Frank Starzel, about the only Pantagraph editor to break the Page One rule was Adlai E. Stevenson, one of the five grandchildren and heirs of the late Pantagraph publisher William O. Davis. During a short hitch as assistant managing editor years ago, Stevenson (who is still a major stockholder in the Pantagraph) dared to put an area story-of a southern Illinois tornado -on the front page...
Throughout a busy life, the lady has never lost her avid interest in Radcliffe, which she calls "a school for leaders." The college presented her with a citation on its seventy-fifth anniversary. Later, her twenty grandchildren collected money and gave a room to the graduate center in her name. At the moment, Mrs. Cannon hopes other interested people will add to her own donation for a Mexican Room in the graduate center. "We should have a room from every country," she suggests. "I chose Mexico because I am so interested...
...Patriotic," "kindly," "gentle," "sweet" and "generous" are the words that his family and friends use. His children know that he can be tender, for we have seen him rock each of his twelve grandchildren in turn, singing their favorite song, Frog Went a-Courtin'. Won't that surprise some of his colleagues on the Hill, who think he eats cactus for breakfast...
...offered heartening evidence that it could. Last year an Amsterdam entertainer named Max Tailleur got a letter from a couple named Cornelis and Margaretha Muylaert. Emigrants to Canada eight years ago, the Muylaerts wrote that they were longing to see their country and their daughter, her husband and their grandchildren. Glowing at the humanity of it all, Tailleur got KLM to agree to fly the homesick couple over, arranged for the dramatic reunion to take place on Radio Nederland...