Word: infantability
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...Greek Independence, followed by 14 years' wandering through Europe and the Middle East as soldier and adventurer, at 36 Guys decided to take up drawing. His first tries, according to his friend, Poet Charles Baudelaire, were "gloomy scratchings . . . He sketched like a barbarian, like an infant." But Guys stuck to it, and ten years later was good enough to get assignments as an artist-reporter for the Illustrated London News. "Do as you please with the landscape," he once wrote his editors from the Crimean battlefront. "Put in a snowstorm if you want." But, he insisted, "please respect...
...premature baby, Patty was a victim of retrolental fibroplasia (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949), an increasingly common cause of infant blindness...
...Child Development, Dr. Gesell has poked the fists of newborn babies to see how they contracted, taken 300,000 feet of movies showing how more than 12,000 youngsters grew in skills and aptitudes from the cradle to the age of ten.* This week, in a slim volume called Infant Development (Harper; $3.50), Dr. Gesell sums up what he has learned of life and growth...
...spelled out the stages of growth in two bestsellers (written with Dr. Frances L. Ilg): Infant and Child in the Culture of Today and The Child from Five...
...Navajo beet worker, Kee Chee, did not do as he was told . . . He was told both by myself, the superintendent of the hospital, and the representative of the Amalgamated Sugar Co. which employed him, to leave the infant in the hospital. Moreover, Amalgamated and Minidoka County were paying and were willing to go on paying the infant's medical expenses. Notwithstanding this, Kee Chee and his wife insisted on taking the baby out of the hospital, and on their own responsibility, left with it on the chartered bus for their home in New Mexico . . . The Chees' reason...