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...Guerre. In Fort Dix, N.J., a sergeant was calling the roll, reached the name of Private Theodore Frank Przywieczerski. The sergeant whistled. Private P. answered promptly, has been Private Whistle ever since...
...Irene Kelly, Pittsburgh widow, has a son in Italy: Technical Sergeant Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, 23, the "one-man blitz" who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for mowing down some 40 Nazis. In Pittsburgh, Mrs. Kelly has two sons-Howard, 16, Danny, 11. Last week Son Howard sharpened a pencil, and got in touch with Washington...
Born. To Master Sergeant Ezra Stone, 26, radio's brash Henry Aldrich, and Sara Seegar Stone, 27; a son, their first child; in Hollywood. Weight: 7 Ib. 12 oz. Name: Josef Seegar...
...something to do with it? To minds troubled by worldwide death recurred an old wives' saying: nature tries to make up for man's mass killings by multiple births. How else explain the widespread news of quintuplets, quadruplets, triplets and twins? Last month had seen U.S. Army Sergeant Bill Thompson's British-born quadruplets (TIME, March 13), the Argentine Diligenti quintuplets (TIME, March 27), the Argentine quadruplets born (they soon died) the same week the Diligentis were discovered, the sextuplets Nicaragua claimed one day, denied the next. Last week Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women...
According to the figures, triplets are due about once in 7,869 births, quadruplets once in 700,000. All that Sloane Hospital, the Diligentis and Sergeant Thompson had was a mild coincidence...