Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pert, talented Author Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney was born with revolt in her veins. Said she: "My mother, whose maiden name was Flynn, was an Irish nationalist. ... In my Sunday school . . . my sister Eileen and I were evicted for having pernicious views." Along the rocky road to fame, as the writer of a zany best-seller and slick Hollywood scenarios, Ruth McKenney paused to join the Communist Party. Her corpuscles promptly began to tingle again. A 1940 sample: "The Second Imperialist War ... is a fight among thieves, a bloody quarrel among the vultures...
...King, 179,275. Promptly the National Assembly had proclaimed the People's Republic. There was nothing left for Bulgaria's nine-year-old Simeon II to do but join his grandfather, Italy's ex-King Victor Emmanuel, in Egypt. This week, Simeon and his mother packed for exile...
Last week at the International Congress of Anesthetists in Manhattan, Dr. Hingson was ready to talk statistics. In more than 2,000 childbirths under caudal analgesia, said he, more than 90% of the mothers had complete relief from pain; the death rate was less than half that of a group of mothers who did not get the treatment. Furthermore, the death rate of babies in the first week of life was 11.5 per 1,000 as opposed to 20.8 in the other group. Reason: continuous caudal analgesia relaxes the mother's muscles so that the baby does not take...
...Formerly, 45% of diabetic mothers died in childbirth; now a diabetic mother has the same chance of surviving as a normal mother...
Died. Ida Stover Eisenhower, 84, frail, unassuming mother of five sons, among them General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff; in Abilene, Kans. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...