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...eldest son of the Earl of Lytton, in a pre-War England that might well have seemed his family's garden. His godfather, Edward VII, confirmed the prestige of his birth; his fairy godmothers gave him health, wealth, happiness. Sargent made a drawing of him as a six-year-old. He soon delighted his parents by giving precocious signs of being a sportsman. At the age of 8 he took a 7½-hr. ski trip in Switzerland with his father, successfully negotiating a 2,600-ft. descent. And he gave early signs of a forceful originality. Reporting Antony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Father & Son | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...rooms a six-year-old boy licked the paper bag the meat had been brought in. His legs were scarcely any larger than a medium-sized dog's leg, and his belly was as large as that of a 130-pound woman's. Suffering from rickets and anemia, his legs were unable to carry him for more than a dozen steps at a time; suffering from malnutrition, his belly was swollen several times its normal size. His face was bony and white. He was starving to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: 'Bootleg Slavery | 3/4/1935 | See Source »

...Facts of Life. Dean Gruggs recalls the curiosity of a little child who once questioned her on a delicate matter. "The little dear said to me: 'Miss Gruggs, where did Kitty come from?' Now girls, you should be able to explain that to the little six-year-old as easily as I did. and you will, after Dr. Daisy Bell's lecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Lone Wolf | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...pulls his mustache down at the''sides, tapes his eyebrows, cuts his hair back on his forehead. Because he maintains a copper-colored sunburn, he needs little grease paint. He lives at Carpinteria, Calif., 65 miles from Hollywood, likes dabbling with oil paints, owns a six-year-old Schnauzer named Greta who, attended by a trained nurse and Warner Gland's personal physician, last week whelped eight puppies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 4, 1935 | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...George F. Temple took out a $25,000 accident insurance policy on their six-year-old daughter Shirley Temple. Since wary U. S. insurancemen turned down such a risk on a child, a syndicate of British companies underwrote the policy, put in two special clauses: 1) Cinemactress Temple must not take up arms in defense of her country; 2) the policy will be voided if she meets death or accident while intoxicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 21, 1935 | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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