Word: pregnants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, who expects a baby in October, convalesced from a near miscarriage (said Hubby Mike Todd: "I know she's getting better; she's starting to scream at me"), Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe, only a few weeks pregnant, was rushed 106 miles from Long Island to a Manhattan hospital. There, while Husband Arthur Miller waited, doctors performed an hour-long operation to end a tubal pregnancy (in which the tiny ovum grows in the Fallopian tube instead of in the uterus). Said Miller afterward: Marilyn felt "as well as could be expected," still planned to have...
...tens of thousands of U.S. homes. This particular private hell is an apartment in a big Manhattan housing project. Don Murray is a jobless Korean veteran who, through some mischance of war, becomes addicted to morphine while under treatment in an Army hospital. Unaware that he is hooked, his pregnant wife (Eva Marie Saint) cannot fathom his jagged nerves, his remoteness, his all-night disappearances. Neither can his obtuse bartender father (Lloyd Nolan). But Murray's indulgent brother (Anthony Franciosa). a bouncer in a B-girl bar, understands too well; on Don's perennial promise of "quitting tomorrow...
...every 100 women who become pregnant, the statistics show, some 85 will give birth to live babies after about nine months, and five will bear premature babies, of which four will live. But in the remaining one-tenth of all pregnancies, the women will lose their children by involuntary abortion before they are mature enough to survive independently. Why? And what can be done about it? In Spontaneous and Habitual Abortion,* published this week (Blakiston; $11). Dr. Carl Theodore Javert. a busy, unorthodox
...psychic setup (cases attributed to defective sperm were exceedingly rare). One astonishing statistic, suggesting factors introduced by marriage: while 10% of married women abort, only 1% of unmarried women do so. Also surprisingly uncommon (seven cases in 2,000) was injury as a cause of abortion. "Nearly all pregnant women sustain some type of external trauma and do not abort," says Dr. Javert...
...rumba. Mike missed no chance to brandish the pregnancy of his third wife, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor. Item: at the première, piqued when distinguished guests were tardy, Todd rushed his wife to a chair, crying for all to hear: "What would you do if your wife was pregnant?" Item: at the party, a drunken guest teetered against Liz. Todd seized the sot, pushed him to the edge of the lake. "My wife is pregnant," he choked. "Will you please be a gentleman?" Liz allowed she might have the baby on the spot, hoped it would be a girl, "because...