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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polish-born Hans Freund, who went under the name "Moulin" while serving as Trotskyist leader in Spain, is now reported "missing...
...only a shameful but a dangerous state of affairs to U. S. doctors and health officers. Nevertheless, the old taboos die hard. Last week produced an interesting anomaly in the record of modern public health education: a four-page spread of text and pictures of how babies are born. Although it had been approved by the U. S. Post Office, it was banned by local law officers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and some 60 other communities. No copies were permitted to cross the Canadian border. The birth pictures appeared in the April 11 issue of 17-month-old LIFE...
...Hearst New York Journal and American was strong for suppression, but the New York Post wanted to know "Is Motherhood Indecent?" Said the Boston Traveler: "Every one of us was born. Is it any harm to know how?" Editor & Publisher, respected journalists' journal, editorialized: "We can point to no better channel of education than pictures selected by an editor with a sense of decency, balance and intelligence." Most belligerent in defense of LIFE was the Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America meeting in Washington this week. The Conference endorsed "the journalistic enterprise of LIFE magazine...
...Born in Turkey, of Greek and Armenian parents, Albert Isaac Bezzerides reached the U. S. when he was nine months old, grew up on his father's farm near Fresno, was a champion quarter-miler in high school. Unable to pronounce his name ("Buzz-air-uh-dees"), his schoolmates called him Buzzard's Knees. He won a scholarship to the University of California, quit in disgust three months before graduation. Then he settled down to truck driving. When he got married he began to write. Prodded on by his wife, he began selling stories to Story, Scribner...
...college four years and a government concentrator, Fisher planned to enter law school after graduation in June. He was born in Winthrop, May, 1916, and prepared for college t Winthrop High School...