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...Manhattan, Justice Jacob Panken gave Psychiatrist Johann G. Auerbach a savage lecture on something every psychiatrist should know-that crowds and automobile noises "have a disastrous effect on the emotions of children." The psychiatrist and his wife had left their eight-month-old baby daughter in a parked car on noisy 48th Street while they went to a lecture on "The Cultural Importance of the Theater to Our Present Civilization...
Astute, bespectacled Jacob ("Jack") Kapp bought an armful of children's small-sized records at the dime store to try on one of the three phonographs in his house. His three-year-old daughter Myra didn't like them. So Kapp, who is president of Decca Records. Inc., recorded a group of Mother Goose stories just for Myra, on standard-size discs. Myra liked them so much that Kapp put the records on sale...
Sucked In. In Lodi, Calif., saddened by the plight of the fellows inside the local jail, outsider Jacob Hohnstein tried to spread a little cheer by siphoning in slugs of booze, got caught at it, became an insider himself...
...Primus, who had just graduated in biology from Manhattan's Hunter College, was ringing doorbells in search of a laboratory job. She did not find the job, but she walked into an NYA group that started her dancing. Last week, at the University of the Dance at rustic Jacob's Pillow, Mass., where Pearl Primus was a guest artist, students saw one of the U.S.'s most spectacular dancers in terrific action...
Russia's Army is bigger than those of all other nations combined, said General Jacob L. Devers, chief of Army ground forces, in a soldiers and satiors rounion in Salem, Illionis, yesterday...