Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, through her mother she has indeed been able to serve a "special purpose." In a simple and moving little book called The Child Who Never Grew (John Day; $1), Author Pearl Buck has told her story; other parents in like case may find help and comfort from...
...Anxiety. It was not until the child was three that Pearl Buck, then living in China, first grew uneasy about her. Her daughter could not yet talk. "I remember," writes Pearl Buck, "asking friends about their children, and voicing my new anxiety . . . Their replies were comforting, too comforting . . . They spoke all the empty words of assurance that friends, meaning well, will use, and I believed them...
...Pearl Buck called in a doctor; next day she called in more. "Then began that long journey which parents of such children know so well . . . We take our children over the surface of the whole earth, seeking the one who can heal. We spend all the money we have and we borrow until there is no one else to lend. We go to doctors good and bad, to anyone, for only a wisp of hope...
...time passed, the journeys became even harder. For when the child was small, if she stopped in the street to clap her hands, or "if, without reason, she began to dance," passersby did not think it odd. Later, they stared. "The kid is nuts," Pearl Buck once heard a woman say. "From that day I began to shield my child...
...postwar construction has not begun to replace the losses from sinkings and scrappings. Even with the completion in 1952 of six liners now in the yards, the U.S. will have only 58 passenger vessels in operation, with berths for 20,000 passengers, less than half the space available before Pearl Harbor. Last week U.S. shipbuilders were hoping that Congress would pass the industry-sponsored long range shipping bill providing special tax benefits as well as a maximum 50% construction subsidy to build ships for the U.S. Merchant Marine...