Word: infant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Limiting his selections to five or six stocks at a time, Darvas often studies one for weeks or months before buying. He steers away from blue chips, buys only growing companies. "I am only in infant industries where earnings could double or treble," he says. "The biggest factor in stock prices is the lure of future earnings. The dream of the future is what excites people, not the reality...
When Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard, became convinced that the Baptist position on infant baptism was sound, he felt that he had drifted so far from Puritan orthodoxy there was only one thing to do: resign. He would have been pleased at last week's announcement of a new dean for Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Samuel Howard Miller will be the first Baptist dean in its 147-year history...
Though doctors still argue about just what constitutes a premature or postmature birth, both kinds are hazardous for the infants involved, specialists told the American Academy of General Practice in San Francisco last week. Half of all infant deaths are among "preemies," but not enough research is being done to cut down the death rate, said Dr. James L. Dennis of Oakland, Calif. And while some authorities deny that there is such a thing as postmaturity, Chicago's Dr. Mitchell J. Nechtow said that 12% of births are delayed two weeks beyond the due date, and 4% are three...
...Seventh-day Adventist college in Madison, Tenn., planned to become a missionary. The mother, Trannie Roberts, 20, also went to the college, worked nights as nurse in an Adventist hospital. Each day, at 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., Gordon and Trannie Roberts held family devotional, cradling their infant son Larry while 2½-year-old Philip Roberts joined in the prayers and sang simple hymns...
Some Like It Hot (Mirisch; United Artists), Marilyn Monroe's first picture in nearly two years, is a double-barreled period piece: it not only parodies the freewheeling, gangster-ridden '20s, but it recalls the pie-throwing farce of cinema's infant days...