What, according to the Rule of 87, happens only once in 5,000,000,000 times apparently took place last week in Inotest, Rumania, where one Johanna Lordache was reported to have given birth to sextuplets.* Two died immediately. The others seemed destined to live.
At Corbeil, Ontario the history-making Dionne quintuplets, who were born two months prematurely, continued to thrive in their eighth week (TIME, June 11). Still kept in incubators they wriggled, stretched, arched their backs, waved their limbs and squeaked for food. Montreal mothers sent...
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