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Last week Miss McGraw had a new pair of twins to display-Florie and Margie, 15 months old, born by caesarean section two months prematurely to a onetime domestic servant and an apartment house doorman. Like Jimmy, Margie has received only a child's ordinary training. As a result she is afraid to climb and jump, cannot yet walk or use a kiddy car. A double mastoid operation, from which she last week was recovering, has not noticeably impeded her development. Florie climbs and jumps as readily as Johnny used to. She has temporarily abandoned her kiddy...
...Columbia, Robert Moses has given his whole life to able public service. Largest single monument to his brilliant, non-partisan career in New York State and City administrative jobs is Jones Beach State Park on the south shore of Long Island. He would seem to be the ideal public servant from the standpoint of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. But the campaign which dark, dynamic Mr. Moses waged last autumn as Republican nominee for Governor of New York was not calculated to win him friends in Washington. Not content with the stock Republican charge that Federal relief...
Chairman of the new national Board is that dry, efficient, but not unsympathetic civil servant who was Sir Henry Betterton up to Jan. 1. In the royal New Year honors he unobtrusively became a baron (TIME, Jan. 7). Last week Lord Betterton bustled about new quarters in Thames House in London, organizing a staff which will total some 5,000 dole administrators. Their job will be to see that jobless Britons between 16 and 65 whose earnings never averaged more than $25 per week receive the cash that is their due "as a matter of right and decency" providing they...
...your servant, composed this song...
...know the half of it. He beat his wife, crippled his son, tried to rape his daughter, kept them all in terrified submission. Only his daughter Sylvelie, a flower-on-the-dunghill type, regarded him without loathing. She escaped some of the family horror by working as house-servant and model to a famed old painter, who in gratitude left her a small fortune when he died. Because Sylvelie was still under age her father was able to make off with the legacy. Sylvelie went to town to see what she could do about her rights. While she was gone...