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DOCTORS now know
much more about
Twins, triplets -and QUADS
woman
But the actual · There are many variations. ATURE has leaned over were safely born to Mr and Mrs has been won. the roofs of a back David Coles, of Pimlico, London, delivery holds great dangers, And each one will dictate how Mrs too. Some say that to multiple much,ake the offspring will September; when street in Chicago and last
successfully births it presents the greatest look and perhaps their sex. Good Margaret turned n worried
gave birth to four girls in a hazard.
The babies chief atd la the. into a scientific battlefield Bristol hospital in 1948; and
problem, the a human test-tube.
Mrs Bessie Taylor gave birth incubator,
Year by year this develop- scientists feel, that must wait a Her doctor told her she to one girl and three boys in
of the oxygen cell das, while, London; hospital the same year. ment Then was to have a baby.
unborn struggle That
and was become More
more
he sent for a specialist. the reason why only two girls elaborate. Now it is centrally. More doctors came and their and one boy survived out of heated to delicately balanced quads born to Mrs warmth and it is completely probing stethoscopes all told the
Muriel Brown in a Bromley, germ proof. the same story.
They had detected five Kent, nursing home recently. or even six-faint heart beats.
Now, to famous gynecolo gists throughout the world and to rural midwives that woman, whose name is
K
born,
the Chicago babies are science will be happy that it can combat or check this unborn ruthlessness.
DOCTORS can tell you cër-
It is the bridge of 1Ko between the
pre-natal and established existence.
What do the say now?
gynaecologists
They prophesy that in the years to come multiple births will be common.", That:quins will be as commonplace twins.
14
That 15 1
Sitting On The Fence
By
T
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
HIS is the time of the much not only develop biz year (peak of the silly tummies, but have a musty luck season) when you get known as Brewer's Asthma,
ing cough in the morning, which
chapa like Oom Daan Mou-
ton, a South African farmer, Student Dustman
telling you that sheep go
bald if people speak sharply TN an ago to them.
It is also
the time of the year when the British Assoclaw tion meets, and you get chaps like Dr B. W, Parnell telling you
of specialists, per haps, it is not surprising that six students have spent their holidays in Warwick learning how to become dusimen.
"There was a short course first on how to pick up dust- to port refuse,"
and
how
that fat men usually drank more bins beer than skinny men, and that says the report. university girls are thinner and For the sake of efficiency, let less muscular than Borstal.girls. us hope there was also the usual
Of, course, if you are cynical and superior, about such matters you won't care if sheep go bold r not, so long as you can get a bit of ore on your plate occasion ally.
..
You may care even less about the size of Borstal girls, particu- larly as you can't ent them, whether they are fat or not!
Moreover, although you are in- different to the size of beer swillers, it might occur to you that they are overweight because they drink too much, and do not drink too much because they are overweight. - -
You will dismiss it wearily as busy-
examination paper with typical questions to answer:→
What is the best way to piek up a dustbin (a) by the handler or (b) round the waist as if you were dancing with a dowager?
Dn
Assuming you have "ausung t your back, holding the handle, at what angle to your body should the dustbin
tried to prevent refuse falling down your neck? State exact 'angle in deprecs.
be
You are sorting for salvage, and must calculate the value of the refuse. Do the following sum:-
If a stale kipper is worth 1-8th of a farthing to a glue
a simple case of cause and effect factory, how much are two and
But if you are an coger
*** a half stale kippers worth after
body passionately interested in you have deducted 5 percent to matters of no importance, the the former for disposal rights? news about the bald-headed sheep will send you scurrying off on a tour of the countryside belling farmers and shepherds
not to be rude to animals.
Gro an enger
You are approaching the dust cart with your load, when a humorous colleague removes the ladder which you must mount in
order to deposit the refuse in the cart.'
Describe the proper behaviour And if you
of a qualified dustman, in 'the scientist, also interested in mat circumstances, and give a digni- ters of no importance, it seems fed reproof in a sentence of not Marks that you will go about the more than six words. country asking fat men how will be lost for bad language, much boer they consume, and
weighing, measuring, and feeling The Best Years
the muscles of university girl and Borstal girls.
is part of the fun of being after
Although the joy of discovery WHAT are the best years of
our lite?
exhaustive Enquiries, scientist, to a layman like myself
it seems a sheer waste of time. Dr Gubbins, the Fleet Streat doctor
I could provide the learned quack, is able to answer some
with material
aspects of this problem. equally obvious and even less interest-
For a start, at what age are Ing without moving from my you most likely to fall in love? desk.
For instance, I could tell him. If you judge men by films of that fahwives are usually more American college boys, actors in muscular, though not always as Hollywood, or elderly American Robert Glentonat, da duchesses; and that most millionaires, they fall in love at who drink and smoke too almost any age between 18 and 80 and roughly about once a year.
Budd
up a few days from the Jazz Age
polishes erg
by JOHN REDFERN-
A Budd Inter
This is because all men (yes, even. Englishmen)... are poly gamous by nature." The difference is that Englishmen | don't do much about it.
Most men cash in on only one of these love affairs, marrying the object of a passing whim. They spend the rest of their lives feeding, clothing and housing object, and its children. At Christmas, they feed and house its relatives, too.
During
This
time they are fall-
They base their ideas on the profound bellef that they are winning' the battles, of nature.
There are Agures to beat
3 a young screenwriter, the keys of Halliday's Inner ing in and out of love with other them out. In Britain seldom is;
omon, but usually do nothing more than one set of quads bori
of his wild marriage.
either because they fear
in a year.
Occasionally there considerable privilege of an
public opinion or because they That tove bogen when he alcoholic as a collaborator,
can't are two.
afford it. \met Jere al” Armistice... time in This takes them There have been three sets say that because the drunk Paris. He was a young officer. quarrelsome and may be the Cross and In the first eight months of was no ordinary character She pretended to be French, cause of war, for all I know, this year though in each cast liable to collect the heave sald her English ALL, GIBLS-the Good quads, born Bristol. › 1948, -
one of the babies did not liv.
In each case it was a boy who ho into the gutter. still a secret, is the most tain facts about multiple births died. For baby girls are far important subject on their new. They know that such more robust at birth.
tables are prematurely born. Their aggregate weight on- forces, that
horizon.
Can those quintuplets or sextuplets be successfully reared?
Out of the four hitherto known cases of six bables born together, no one child has survived even temporar- ily.
That is problem one.
It is often hard to imagine They will be light weight. In the antiseptic clinical Their struggles for survival atmosphofe furrounding these will guarantee that
multiple births that ordinary
·· That is problem two,
bawling red-faced bables will be Tho heavier a baby is at a result. birth, the better its chances of Only the anxious, parents are
..
Was
"What
you call zo bedpillow Eng- leesh." Just playfulness. Нег resi: interest wns apparently
an- The classic case is King
living. An infant under three, aware of that as they frantically venue on the tops of taxi.blueprint on which to build for for some reason or other was
way three to four pounds it has a
not
He was F. Scott Fitzgerald, the
translation of Rimbaud. In the handsome and fabulous But she took time off to show where the polygamous nature of come: Eastern. countries, American writer, literary him cartwheels in the Crillon men is recognised, they fall in spokesman for the Twenties, Bar. designer of the label, "The Jazz
love several times a year, áre Life becomes a Crillon cart able to do something about it on Age
Occassion, and are
hardly Then, Scott Fitzgerald was wheel; the years are lived from each occasion, strik man of the hour, and his fate Haliday meets ever quarrelsome.
Later, striking wife, Zeido, ita queen.
They led the revel-dancing other woman, Aon, a fum cute Salomon, who fell in love 1,00 on tables, riding down Fifth- ter who tries to dve him a times, married 1,000 women and
middle spending the money they were ngo. Sho Axce him up cplled the widest man on earth.
with Milgrim. pounds base hope. From think of Christian names,
earning We have come a long
But, he visits Jere when Mil- At what age are you likely to And will they need names of Teamed with Budd Schul-
berg for a, script. Fitzgerald New York. The skids are under When you have been married
lakes him to make the grim's ignment the dfty-fifty chance. Over four girls or boya?
most in ensuring health to
money? pounds and its doctor vill sigh The doctors cannot tell them,fell down, in both senses, un him following a slug of cham human.
It Is probable that each two the job, and died - 11 year pagne on the plane ride after ears and have collectod enough Germs have been fought with relicta
agosuccessful cof-
toveral months abstinence. and vanquished. Disease Even the chances of survival babies will be identical twins. can be calculated. Experts say But by no means certain. They
has."
DESOLATION → that out of twelve sets of could be all girls as were the twins, cloven should live. Five Dionne quintuplets... Or just groups of triplets will survive as likely all boys, kan daa out of six and three sets of, It: Mepends from how many, which Scolt becomes divorce la lave tra But from the time a baby is quads out of four cells the babies are developed. Manley Hallidays
The Disachanted" will 11 conceived until it is born it has :
But Cover that the odda ure. There are many permutations. a long, hard battle, and; science so great they cannot to One fertilised cell can prochant, those old enough to re Is not sure how far it can help. calculated.
duce ve children. In this case member the signposts of the Jazz Age "Orphans of the It is a vital matters to nations.
Storm The "IP" Girl, the DA
writer (here the Boott Fit
is being beaten.
It is a vital matter to every man and woman, a
Now, overy known discovery, ald, and advantage will be 'placed" at the disposat of those doctors in Chicago. If they can rear and raise to health six children it will be the drst time.
It wil be overwhelming evl dence that melanco is makling birth a simpler wares: M4 Multiplag birtist are alwaył {worrying,
unborn bable
•
born: London
Out of that laboration, Budd Schulberg 2 wrought a success. "THE DISENCILANTED "* a novel în
Charleston, Valentino, Paza
THEIR old,
youra
to
thé passing whim for several:
dependants to spend it for you.. As the Government will takeo what the dependarfs, havo: left years gou might ask who have and sho looks ter bothered to make any money older and asks him for any time? money ho owes her. He goes There is no answer to this out to Paul and Tony's "joint." qudation,
From New York, he goes At what, with Shep, a young screen personality undergo its greatest age does, your
Schulbers link), to College",
to change? (with, the
After. circus to work on a
the honeymoon with the lege musical varia
passing whim.
you havo
GHOSTS RETURN
SCHULBERG: brings, the F- ghosts back; larger than life,
routine college
Shep admires him, tries to awakened from
When
a romantic
as they always were. When the sore him away from ruin, but dream to the realities of bills. the is round, Halil rates, taxes, housing's problems, story opens Mahiay, Halliday. 1 positively plastered, fuel culs, tic tantrums and
day
hack screen-wrling Wintojų Milgriovy
· hingust, boen algun by bo / havingŝSo much fun. Yet of the grumpy old bord you SED
"They had always seemed to toddlers, we gei ihn frut gilingan.
The Grace of all the Huskega, looking back it was the coasini" soloer, to be, les, the tragedies,thayegatuck here jording. it over hik Yezmery:
by
up in his mind like inlephone
**At what age is it easiest for
thing.