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...real brothers. They point to the Douay version's "And he [Joseph] knew her not till she brought forth her first-born son" (Matthew 1:25), and "And she brought forth her first-born son" (Luke 2:7). To that Catholics reply that Scriptural use of the word "firstborn" connotes a woman's first child but does not neces-j sarily indicate later children...
...urges the old sea chantey. Last week Commonwealth Statistician S. R. Carver revealed another interesting fact about Australian girls: seven out of every ten of Australia's teen-age mothers in 1951 conceived their first babies without benefit of marriage; 28% of all the year's firstborn children were conceived out of wedlock...
...indicating that he was only human and perhaps foolish. There was that matter of the $5,000 commission he picked up for selling an airplane. There was his wife's famed mink coat. "My wife loved that coat," he drawled. "She loved it and petted it like a firstborn child. Now, the pore thing, she'll never put it on again. I think she sold...
...Bobo Rockefeller is quoted in TIME (June 23) as saying that she will never forget Winthrop Rockefeller "because there is an old saying that a woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." To speculate about the origins of this maxim is fascinating. Back in the days when old sayings were in the making, grandmamma took the place of television. When she was in the mood to remnisce, the grandchildren gathered round . . . She liked to talk about her youth, and one yarn went something like this: "The father of my firstborn was a Mr. Drybutter. He had a slack spade...
...absolutely flabbergasted." Said she: "Untrue . . . absolutely disgusting." But all Bobo really wants, she indicated, is a reconciliation: "I love Winthrop. I always have. After all, he is the father of my first child. There's an old saying that a woman never forgets the father of her firstborn. I'll never forget...