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Into the World. Jane's case is not at all unique. When Lucy, now ten, was a toddler, she resentfully poured what she thought was some hot water over her new baby sister. It was hot paraffin, and the baby died. Lucy's horrified parents eventually drove the "wicked" child into Smiths-and the loving arms of Big Sister Agatha, who has since restored the stunned, mute child to hesitant speech and a chance for recovery. So close have many other children become to their Big Sisters that the hospital's new problem is how to "wean...
...comfortably, at his government's expense, with his wife and child in an apartment in suburban Sevres. ¶ Hasan Kaplan, 14, lives with his sister, mother and father, a retired naval officer turned art teacher, in a hotel on the Left Bank. Having begun to paint as a toddler, Hasan has had a one-man show in Turkey, exhibited his canvases in both Paris and New York (TIME, Nov. 10, 1952). ¶ Ates Pars, 14, son of an Ankara State Opera tenor and a former member of the opera chorus, both of whom were violently opposed to his becoming...
...life of his heroic forebears became the Toulouses so much as the gallantry with which the disfigured dwarf made of himself a gay, broken blade in Paris. He never developed the cripple's defense mechanism of a sweet nature; instead he swaggered through the world on toddler's legs. He drank big men under tables as high as his proud chin. When he closed his eyes, he experienced the horrors of alcoholic hallucination, but with his eyes open, Count Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec saw with a savage clarity that has forced his special vision...
...quiet, precise executive, Harvey Jr., the eldest son, stepped into his father's shoes at the age of 39. As a toddler he had pulled the lever to start the first Firestone tire plant operating, and like his brothers,* he went to work climbing through the ranks after graduating from Princeton. As president during World War II, he turned to synthetics, made Firestone the first U.S. company to produce man-made GR-S rubber on a large scale...
...compared to some 130 hours in the U.S.). The screen must be left blank on Sunday mornings so as not to compete with churchgoing; no Sunday afternoon shows may be aimed at children, because they might entice them away from Sunday school. At 6 every evening will occur the "toddler's truce," an hour of TV silence, so that parents can wring out their moppets and put them to bed. The program companies have made an unwritten agreement to limit U.S. imports to 25% of the week's programming. But arrangements have already been made to acquaint Britons...