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...Offhand, the picture looked like good news: two men, one a policeman, appeared to have rescued a small boy from an icy stream (see cut). But when newspaper readers looked at the caption, they learned that three-year-old Peter Shoukimas of Cranford, N.J. was dead. He had drowned in the Rahway River. His mother said that he was always slipping away to watch the river. "It utterly fascinated him," she said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...Birmingham, 21-year-old Mrs. Alec E. Fitzhugh said she strangled her three-year-old son with a diaper in order to collect $1,000 insurance to pay off three $50 loans and the $75 interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...different kind of party for these three-year-old children of Harvard students. Twenty of them, representing Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish faiths, gathered in the Harvard University Nursery School yesterday and kindled the seven branched menorah in joint observance of the age-old Hebrew festival of Chanukah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nursery Learns Tolerance at Yuletide, Chanukah Parties | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

Before going to Key West, Harry Truman had taken time off to dedicate a new children's wing of the Georgetown University Hospital. There he dropped in on three-year-old Sharon Meenehan, the victim of an automobile accident. Sharon, who had both legs in casts held straight up by overhead pulleys, was disappointed. She thought her mother had told her that "a present" was coming, not a "President." Next day, Harry Truman sent her a Mother Goose book. He wrote on the flyleaf: "Here's the present you thought you were getting. Get well in a hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Restored Bounce | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...dashed next door to see his 74-year-old mother, Doña Luiza, who bore 21 children and continues to advise the close-knit family brood on all matters public and private. On Saturday, Racing Enthusiast Aranha drove over to the Jockey Club, watched his three-year-old Itororó win a $2,000 race, and got another ovation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Well Done! | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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