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...Alfred Kinsey [Sept. 3] was a great and wonderful man. I shall never forget the wisdom, patience and deep understanding with which he talked to me once when I was deeply disturbed and asked him for help. I doubt that many people outside of Bloomington know of the social ostracism accorded Dr. Kinsey and his family because of his research into that "nasty" subject, sex. I grew up there, and watched parents forbidding their children to play with the Kinsey children, and the Kinseys being "cut" when they attended social functions. What a price for a dedicated researcher to have...
...prophets of Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis and that Baedeker of sexual abnormality, Richard von Krafft-Ebing. What remained was for someone to link the age's preoccupation with sex to its passion for statistics. That job was taken on, not surprisingly, by an American-Alfred Charles Kinsey of Bloomington, Ind., zoologist by training, who was determined to observe the sex behavior of the human animal with the scientific methods he had once brought to an earlier specialty, the study of gall wasps...
Another Generation. Alfred Kinsey, who lived in a comfortable house in Bloomington behind thick hedges of shrubbery and books, was a well-known figure in the academic world, equally well known in what he called the underworld of New York's Times Square, where he and his Ph.D. associates had conducted widespread interviews. Apart from a passion for hi-fi music, he was driven by a 16-hour-a-day dedication to his work. Said his wife once in a famous aside: "I hardly ever see him at night any more since he took...
...Alfred Charles Kinsey, 62, zoologist, statistician, and top-ranking authority on gall wasps, whose team in 1948 turned out the bestseller Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, later (1953) scored again with the companion volume Sexual Behavior in the Human Female; of a heart ailment and pneumonia: in Bloomington, Ind. (see MEDICINE...
...Stevenson home on Washington Street in Bloomington, Ill. Adlai absorbed the family sense of duty, his mother's intense intellectual curiosity. She read him the classics (Dickens, Scott), pumped him with such copybook admonitions as "Observe, persist, learn." "Keep pacid and cheerful, knowing all things come to those who love the Lord and do His works." After prep school (Choate) came Princeton. To the list of heroes that included Lincoln. Great-grandfather Fell and Grandfather Stevenson Adlai added a new one: Princetonian Woodrow Wilson, whom he had met in 1912. Of all the figures in the Democratic pantheon, Idealist...