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Many a baby is born with strawberry or port-wine patches on his face, and although these disfiguring birthmarks have given rise to a lot of old wives' tales and maternal self-reproach, most have no medical significance. An exception is the massive port-wine stain with which Michael Wood was born nearly five years ago. The huge birthmark extended from around the right eye down the side of his face to the neck...
...night his cronies celebrate with a little corybantic in which gangster cuties are sent slithering across tables, sofas and floors as casually as spilled drinks. Johnny finds a nude Continental bunny (Margit Saad) in his own bed, and after that night she sticks as close to him as a birthmark. He has a bigger caper in mind, lifting ?40,000 from a race track. To the syncopated beat of the score, the job goes off with tingling finesse. In a bleak, snow-bitten field, Johnny digs a hole and buries his loot; two reels later, when the crime syndicate crushes...
...opposite end of the hall, buried her face in her hands. But Powers, despite his baggy, Russian-made double-breasted suit, looked fit and to all appearances unbrainwashed. When newsmen murmured about a bruise on his neck, Ida Powers set the record straight. "It's a birthmark," she said. "Yes, indeed, that's the first thing we saw about him when they brought him to the bed in Burdine. Kentucky, 31 years ago today...
Medicine has largely debunked the cruder old wives' tales, e.g., that a strawberry birthmark follows a strawberry-eating jag by the mother-to-be. But it is no old wives' tale that German measles in the first three months of pregnancy can be crippling or fatal to the fetus (TIME, Dec. 31). Now more such evidence is piling up. In London's Lancet, Psychologist Denis H. Stott of Bristol University reports a study of 102 mentally retarded children, makes a strong case that prenatal influences (as opposed to injury during birth or later illness) are to blame...
...Prince's nurse. The Prince, who is eight months old, has been brought to the forest after Roderick, the film's usurping tyrant, has massacred the rest of the royal family. The Prince deserves the throne because he, and not Roderick, has on his bottom the royal birthmark--the Purple Pimpernel. By a stroke of good luck the demure Miss Johns knocks out a passer-by named Giacomo the Jester, who is in reality a secret agent. Dressed up in Giacomo the Jester's outfit, Danny Kaye goes to the castle to get the key to the secret passageway...