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...usually lose 5 or 6 oz., but regain it by the beginning of the second week. Then the ordinary infant adds poundage until he weighs 20 to 21 Ib. at his first birthday. Mrs. Caruso's 18-lb. son, if he gains weight in proportion to his pre-natal precocity, will weigh 36 Ib. July 1, 54 Ib. next New Year...
...Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. He did "not wish to be understood as saying that it makes no difference what a woman eats during her nine months of pregnancy. On the contrary her diet is of the utmost importance and its regulation one of the chief features of intelligent pre-natal care...
...them the first non-stop flight from London to Turin in a 35 h. p. Baby Avro. For such exploits he was temporarily dubbed "Sir Jockey." Recently he was accorded casual notice for two remarkable solo flights, both in a light Puss Moth: New York to Kingston, Jamaica; and Natal, Brazil to Bathurst, British Gambia, West Africa?2.000 mi. (TIME, Dec. 7). The last flight, in Editor Grey's opinion, "beats anything that has ever been done singlehanded by any aviator in the world...
...British Ambassador effected Hinkler's release by Brazilian authorities, who had arrested him for flying "out of bounds'' (TIME. Nov. 30), Hinkler was out over the South Atlantic in his little 90-h. p. Puss Moth, alone as Lindbergh. Behind him lay the port of Natal; ahead of him a 1,600-mi. span to Africa which no airplane had yet flown eastward. In moonlight darkened by occasional squalls Pilot Hinkler flew 22 hr., sat down at the little colony of Bathhurst, British Gambia, with an hour's fuel in his tanks. He refuelled, flew...
Widespread during the past month has been this rumor: Charles Augustus ("Eaglet") Lindbergh Jr., 17-month-old son of the No. 1 U. S. hero, is deaf and so has not learned to talk. Cause of the affliction was supposed to have been the pre-natal drumming of airplane motors in his ears, causing a trauma, while his mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, continued to fly during her pregnancy...