Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They have the bodies of women and the minds of children," Dr. O'Gorman says delightedly, "which was just the combination needed." On four-year-old Jane, for example, the effect has been startling. Jane entered Smiths last year, utterly demoralized by her well-educated but intensely demanding parents. She alternated between incoherent screaming and stunned silence, slept exactly two hours in her first eight days, required three people to undress her. The "continuous cuddle" given Jane by a nurse and doctor were unsuccessful-then Big Sister Maggie (mental age: five) took over. Jane went to bed with Maggie...
Into the World. Jane's case is not at all unique. When Lucy, now ten, was a toddler, she resentfully poured what she thought was some hot water over her new baby sister. It was hot paraffin, and the baby died. Lucy's horrified parents eventually drove the "wicked" child into Smiths-and the loving arms of Big Sister Agatha, who has since restored the stunned, mute child to hesitant speech and a chance for recovery. So close have many other children become to their Big Sisters that the hospital's new problem is how to "wean...
Those of the Harvard Community who heard about last night's Green Mountain raid raised a storm of protest. Jane Fletcher '59 commented, "I didn't really want to be a cheerleader very much myself, but I think that those girls who did have the energy should be allowed...
...Jane Fletcher '59 has nominated herself, but has declined to attend the camp. "I'll just practice at home," she said. The member of the Fly Club nominated by the Spee Club has withdrawn "for personal reasons...
Everything else in Hollywood may change, but after 23 years at work, Russell Birdwell, 55, remains the flashiest flack in the business-the man who happily takes credit for inventing Jane Russell, rescuing Norma Shearer from being treated like a superannuated widow, nearly succeeding in making Rumania's ex-King Carol popular. To launch unknown, 25-year-old Diane Hartman (Birdwell calls her 22) in that white silk rig, he has concocted some accompanying ad copy to the effect that Hollywood is empty of female glamour-except, of course, for Diane, who is described thus: "An untamed animal...