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...professor of German and a linguistics expert. When his first daughter, Hildegard, was born nine years ago, Professor Leopold immediately started a serious study of her language development. He kept a diary, put down every sound his baby uttered. (Eventually, Hildegard, seeing her father constantly busy with a pencil, asked: "What are you writing?" He replied: "I am taking notes for my work," kept his secret.) Dr. Leopold gave his experiment an unusual twist by teaching Hildegard two languages: from birth he talked to her only in German, his wife only in English...
Born in Boston in 1901, Painter Hoffman began drawing as soon as he could hold a pencil. He studied art in Boston and Europe, now lives in a crowded Manhattan studio with a squint-eye view of Central Park. For recreation, he plays squash, second fiddle in an amateur chamber-music ensemble that meets in his studio every Wednesday evening...
...acutely aware right now. Once there was a day when Vag wrote a letter to you each Christmas. This letter was inevitably the only nit of writing he did outside of school. Somehow, it never seemed a hardship--as was all other writing. It was scribbled rather carefully in pencil--on the dining room table just after the supper dishes had been cleared away. About this time of year, it was, too. Annually, it must have caused Mr. Farley's postal predecessor some trouble. The address was a little vague. Just North Pole. But it got through, You always knew...
...been asked to come over to the cabin for "a bit of lunch with the boys." He has already seen the cabin once, during the early stages of its construction, but unfortunately when he dropped in none of the "crew" were around. He left hem a message written in pencil on a 2 x 4, which has been built into the wall in a prominent position and is shown with much pride to any visitor...
Windsor, Gould, Vanderbilt. A few swank names there are in French women's war work: the Duchess of Windsor, whose Versailles Colis du Trianon sends familyess French soldiers parcels containing a pullover, two pairs of socks, two handkerchiefs, pencil & paper, cigarets, sweets and box of aspirin; orchidaceous Mrs. Frank Jay Gould, member of a wealthy French women's organization under the patronage of Marshal Joffre's widow which collects money to buy ambulances, last week bought 40; the Duchesse de Caylus, whose Oeuvre des Détresses Cachée tactfully tries to aid needy and unemployed...