Word: infantability
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...arms throughout his first press conference, the three-week-old Earl of St. Andrews was soundly pro claimed by Fleet Street's eagle-eyed editors to look just like his dad. Son of Prince Edward and Katharine, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the titled but yet unchristened infant earl-tenth in line to the British throne-has an imperial adventure ahead. Along with his father, a captain in the Royal Scots Greys, he will soon move to Hong Kong as the transferred regiment's unofficial mascot...
...sliced into her abdomen. Surgeon Robert Beveridge saw that her troubles were even worse than he had suspected. "Her organs looked as if someone had just wadded them in his fist and thrown them in there,'' he said. He drained off the abscess that was blocking the infant's small bowel. Next Beveridge sewed a tube into the wall of her stomach so that she could be fed. After that, he performed a colostomy -looped part of the colon (large bowel) outside the baby's body so that she could get rid of waste. Somehow, Denise...
...confined at the federal prison hospital in Springfield, Mo.), Bird Man of Alcatraz is an impressive movie. Director John Frankenheimer makes graphic the crushing sterility and despair of prison existence, the way the pent-up longing for life and freedom fastens touchingly on tiny things. As an infant canary kicks and squirms its way out of its natal shell, the owner-inmate lights up a cigarette butt, as a proud father would a cigar...
...Reluctant Debutante, and who, although only 50, is still turning out some of the best plays of 1887. The new one is about a cigarette girl in the slums of London who takes a customer home with her and soon finds that she is in a family way. The infant boy is sent to America. He returns after 20 years, and by stunning coincidence enters the tawdry cellar nightclub that his mother now owns. The woman stares wet-eyed at her long-lost son. She says nothing, poignantly. The youth must never know that this bulging madam is his mother...
...subtly led his tale away from the kind of reality that is composed of what is probable and what is worldly. As the novel continues, it is legend. Wanda dies in childbirth, and her screams reveal her as a Gentile. Jacob is arrested, but escapes and travels with his infant son to Palestine. In his old age, Jacob returns to the village where Wanda died. He finds that her bones, buried in unconsecrated ground, have been surrounded by spreading graves; the dead have accepted the convert...