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...Belgium and Queen Astrid, vacationing in the Villa Haslihorn near Lucerne, sent their three small children back to Brussels. But next morning the sun came out hot and strong, with the promise of a fine day for a mountain climb, a sport of which Leopold was just as fond as his father. Hobnail boots, ropes and alpenstocks were piled into the back of the royal Packard touring car beside the chauffeur. In front Leopold took the wheel while Astrid sat beside him, holding a road map. They started down the lakeside road, keeping close to the curb because the pavement...
Page & Shaw. So inordinately fond of sweets was the late teetotaling James Buchanan ("Diamond Jim") Brady that he was known to eat a pound of candy in five minutes. One day he was given a box of chocolates made by a small Boston confectionery named Page & Shaw. "It's the best goddam candy I ever put in my mouth!" cried "Diamond Jim," who vowed he would thereafter buy no candy but Page & Shaw's. Later, according to his biographers, he offered the struggling little candy company $150,000 without interest...
...unhappy or untrained. This simple explanation of the most colossal of parents' domestic problems underlies the first textbook in English on the personality disorders of children. In Child Psychiatry* published last week, Professor Leo Kanner of Johns Hopkins, a rosy-cheeked, studious man of 41, married and genuinely fond of children, prepared his explanation for the immediate use of parents, uncles, aunts, doctors, judges, sociologists, teachers...
...estimator for James E. Bennett & Co., Mrs. Miller does not rely solely on the reports of her 5,000 agents but travels personally through the grain and cotton belts. (Cotton estimating is one of her specialties.) Last year she covered 40.000 miles. At 34 she is a divorcee, fond of dancing and poker, mother of a two-year...
...hotel whose name he had insinuated into print. His wife patiently worked the mimeograph machine, licked the stamps, kept what records there were. The other point is that his wife for years has been his business manager, arranging and dictating the terms of all his contracts. Childless, deeply fond of his Boston Bull and Sealyham, he has simplified his life so that his daily column can be, and is, his consuming interest. He has rejected radio offers as fat as $5,000 for a few-minute broadcast because he feared his column might suffer. He quit drinking long ago, likes...