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French babies are not brought by a stork; they are delivered by a rabbit in a cabbage patch. But in Alsace, where German folklore survives, the stork is still the solemn patron of the childbed. France, whose declining birth rate is a national problem, viewed with alarm a last week report on stork nests in Alsace: In 1927, there were 270; in 1928, only 150 were occupied; this year, only 53 in all Alsace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Not Enough Storks | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

Born. To Ernest Hemingway, 33, author (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms), and Mrs. Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway, his second wife; a son; in Kansas City, Mo. Name: Gregory Hancock. Announcing that they were "stork-conscious," Author & Mrs. Hemingway returned from residence in Europe so that Gregory Hancock might be born in Kansas City, where Patrick, their first son (Author Hemingway's second), was born three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

...matter how skillful with the scalpel, he may and often does lack any feeling for the sociological side of his practice, any bent for an old-fashioned understanding of human nature. The old family doctor was a bit rough-and-ready in his obstetrics when he raced with the stork along snowy roads in a one-horse shay, but he knew something that the modern vintage of physicians too often forgets. Like the great Sir William Osler, he knew that a doctor's ministration is not confined to medicine. Although the specialist in the city may succeed without this full...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COMPLETE PHYSICIAN | 11/27/1931 | See Source »

Score--Harvard 5, Worcester 1, Goals--Clos 2, Stork 2, Grover, Bulkeley. Referee--Frazer. Time--Two 30-minute periods...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM DEFEATED BY PENNSYLVANIA 5 TO 2 | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...Kullman 3, Anderson, Chang, Dorman, Broadbent, Frame. Referee--R. Howley. Linesmen--Paynton, Crew. Time--Four 22-minute periods. HARVARD 1935 WORCESTER England, g. g., Munez Kingsley, l.f.b. r.f.b., Stark Irving, r.f.b. l.f.b., Sharp McGoodwin, l.h.b. r.h.b., Chrestman Colman, c.h.b. c.h.b., Curtis Fuess, r.h.b. l.h.b., Rocheford Robbins, l.o.f. r.o.f., Barrett Stork, l.i.f. r.i.f., Trivers Clos, c.f. c.f., Bulkeley Butler, r.i.f. l.i.f., Sherwin Grover, r.o.f. l.o.f., Appleyard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM DEFEATED BY PENNSYLVANIA 5 TO 2 | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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