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...word from Dr. Benjamin Spock, 65, on a different subject-namely Baby and Child Care. The handbook that made the good doctor a fortune (20 million copies to date) is being published in Russian-which may bring more nyets than da, da, das once Russian mothers get a load of what he says. Spock advises light garments and laying babies on their stomachs, but Russian mothers swaddle infants tightly and set them on their backs; he urges early feeding of solids, Russian gurglers stick to milk and cereal; he advises never force a child to walk, while Russian parents want...
Davis is beguilingly guileful as a runaway slave who changes hands like a dirty dollar. He is captured by a band of Indians, who unload him on Fur Trapper Lancaster as "payment" for the load of skins they steal from him. The redskins, in turn, are zapped by a batch of bounty hunters, who earn their living by selling Indian scalps for $25 apiece, and Davis gets himself captured by these private enterprisers. Their queen is Shelley Winters, a refugee from a fancy house. She nurses her stogie on a brass bed in the covered wagon...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, will resign his chairmanship of the Social Studies Department next year in order to resume a full teaching load...
...Oyler popped up, but Detroit's right-handed pitching ace Earl Wilson slashed a line drive into the right-center field alley to produce a run. Culp then walked Dick McAuliffe (one of four the shortstop drew in the game) to load the bases...
...obverse of Harry Truman's comment on April 13, 1945, the day after Franklin Roosevelt's death and his own swearing-in as President. "I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay fall on you," he told a group of reporters, "but when they told me yesterday what had happened, I felt like the moon, the stars and all the planets had fallen...