Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dr. Charles Edward North, 91, pioneering bacteriologist who coined the phrase "Grade A" during a turn-of-the-century study of the dairy industry that led to the stiffening of milk sanitation standards and a sharp drop in U.S. infant mortality; in Montclair...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Tonight's story concerns black-market babies and the crooks who act as liaison between unmarried mothers and childless couples, sometimes reportedly charging as much as $10,000 an infant...
...novels and plays have minted him millions of dollars-and countless loyal friends-British-born P. G. Wodehouse once confided that his life has been "greatly devoted to feeling like 30 cents." His first feeling of being below par interrupted the ceremony in which, 79 years ago, the infant Wodehouse was named Pelham Grenville. Said he: "I remember protesting vigorously, but to no avail." His longest bout with misfortune came in 1940 when Plum, as he has been called since schooldays, was arrested by the Nazi army in his home at Le Touquet on the French side of the English...
...light green. Dr. John B. Hersey, chief scientist of the cruise, believes that the chunks with fresh faces were broken by the dredge out of the mysterious third layer. If so, they may show what the crust of the earth was like billions of years ago, before the infant ocean rained sediment...
...through the Soo Locks and the Detroit, St. Clair and St. Marys rivers. The Seaway should benefit ultimately, too, from major new iron mines being developed in Labrador and from steadily mounting U.S. and Canadian exports. Says Chicago Regional Port Director Maxim Cohen: "We're just a waddling infant. It will probably be 1965 before we can take off our diapers and put on pants...