Word: firstborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio at Xylotombou, Cyprus. A young Jew scurried along the camp's muddy paths, blowing a trumpet as he ran. To Abraham Greenberg, the sound was like that of the trumpets that brought down the walls of Jericho long ago. Abraham ran to tell his wife Zahava. Their firstborn, Arie, was cutting his first teeth; he would be a Jew of Israel, the first of Abraham's family in centuries not to have another nationality. Abraham and Zahava and others in the camp built a bonfire; around it they danced the Hora to celebrate the end of their...
...Negro students at Baldwin-Wallace College, Bones has been a campus celebrity for some time. Last year his fellow students raised $1,500 among themselves to set up a scholarship for his firstborn child (if & when he begins to raise a family; he is still a bachelor). Bones's fame has now spread far beyond the campus. A skinny 5 ft. 10 in. tall, he is the greatest high & low hurdler who ever wore spikes. He holds nine world records at different distances, and is the safest bet the U.S. has for the Olympic Games in July...
Died. Julia Etta Willkie, 57, Wendell Willkie's versatile elder sister; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Bridgeport, Conn. The family's firstborn, she majored in Greek at Indiana U. (summa cum laude, '08), taught languages at Indiana's Manchester College after postgraduate philolo-gizing in Europe. She translated for the U.S. Government during World War I, took a law degree (1916) and shared the Elwood practice of her father, later worked in Ontario as a skilled bacteriologist. At the time of her death she headed the priorities section of United Aircraft's Bridgeport division...
Presidential Adviser Thomas Gardiner ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran used to work until 4 a.m., used to travel far & wide on the moment's spur. Grounded in Washington while his pretty wife Peggy was momentarily expecting their firstborn, he mourned: "This domesticity ruins the irregularity of my life...