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Choice of Illness. A mother's anxieties about various aspects of her child's bodily functions may play an important part in the youngster's unconscious "choice" of psychosomatic illness, said Dr. George J. Mohr of Los Angeles' Mount Sinai Hospital. Some mothers nag about feeding or bowel movements; in such a setting the child may develop ulcerative colitis. If mother worries every time baby wheezes, he may "choose" asthma...
...Some $500,000 for clothing for schoolchildren so that the poorest Navajo youngster can go warmly dressed to school...
Stan Musial, the leading hitter in the National League, hit a two-run homer and youngster Lindy McDaniel hurled tight baseball as the St. Louis Cardinals dropped the Chicago Cubs last night...
Back to the Bath. As a youngster, Murray learned from his father to hate Frank Hague, who slapped down Murray Sr. every time he reached for office. When Kenny toppled Hague in 1949, Murray Sr. finally won with him and became Parks Commissioner. But his alliance with Kenny was short-lived. In 1950 the elder Murray defied the boss, backed son Jim for Congress. For this insubordination Kenny stripped Murray of power, put him in charge of Jersey City's one public bath and its nine employees. Then Kenny canceled out the younger Murray with an obscure candidate also...
Zoli can claim the distinction of being one of the first in Italy to be anti-Mussolini. As a boy in the Romagna, short, roly-poly Adone Zoli took a particular dislike to one of his schoolmates, a pushy youngster from a neighboring farm, Benny Mussolini. Even after the pushy youngster became the Duce, Zoli persisted in his pub lic contempt for Mussolini's ideas, invariably had his suits made without lapel buttonholes so that he would have no place to wear the Fascist emblem. His anti-Fascist activities almost cost Zoli his life -after his 1943 arrest...