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Married. Augusta Christian Glass Allen, younger daughter of Senator Carter Glass of Virginia; and Isaac Watlington Digges of Manhattan; in Washington...
...apparently never occurred to Isaac, sexagenarian son of Abraham, that Rebekah, big with twins after 20 years' barrenness, might have half betrayed him when she conceived shaggy, ruddy Esau and sleek, swarthy Jacob. Wiser in rustic folkways, Ewald Peddie, Yankton. S. Dak. farmer, taxed his wife with infidelity when she bore him twin sons who were in his eyes as different as Esau and Jacob. She admitted bedding with a neighbor. Everyone to whom Farmer Peddie talked declared that the idea of twins having different fathers was scientifically preposterous. For six years his suspicion of divided paternity rankled. Finally...
...John Hay Whitney's famed team of dappled grey hunters. Two Leggins, Grey Knight, Bon Diable, which took first, second and third in their class. They will meet hotter competition in Manhattan from the stables of Mrs. Bernard F. Gimbel, Mrs. John V. Bouvier III and Isaac Clothier Jr. ?ho did not exhibit at Chicago...
...went to the U. S., which he found ''very agreeable,'' left because life there lacked "mental excitement." After the War, he became science editor of the London Athenaeum. His hobbies are music and mathematics; his heroes Beethoven (on whom he has written a book), Isaac Newton (of whom he hopes to write...
...Isaac Newton Kugelmass, Manhattan pediatrician who last week discussed newborn weight losses in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the variations in losses among different kinds of newborns are of no significance compared to the fact that all babies lose weight immediately after birth. He has no hopes of eliminating all the loss because the human baby "is unprepared for its individualized existence in comparison with other mammals, occupying a place somewhere between the domestic mammal and the wild marsupial." If women gestated like most animals, babies would be four times as big at birth as they are, reasons...