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...judicious balance. He still admires the standards of scholarship and devotion to intellectual matters he learned from his father. He cannot help agreeing with papa that it was worth learning geometry, Greek, Latin and German "at an age when most boys are learning trivialities." But, he adds, "my boyhood was not all cakes...
...cruel dilemma. The child is likely to be a boy whose masculinity was not evident at birth, so he has been reared as a girl. It is one thing, and fairly simple, to operate and make him what nature originally intended, but the social readjustment from girlhood to boyhood is forbiddingly difficult. The less common cases of girls mistaken for boys are just as tough...
Seminole (Universal-International) takes place in early 19th century Florida territory, where a martinet of a U.S. Army major (Richard Carlson) seems determined to wipe out the friendly Seminole Indians. Championing the cause of the redskins is a dashing lieutenant (Rock Hudson), a boyhood friend of the Seminole chief (Anthony Quinn) with whom he is competing for the same girl (Barbara Hale). After a lot of war-whooping, Indian raids and military attacks-during which the chief gets killed, the major gets his comeuppance and the lieutenant gets the girl-a peaceful settlement of the Seminole problem appears imminent...
...whose masculine glands and organs are so malformed as to be mistaken for female. When this condition is discovered (often as late as puberty, though it should be earlier), the biggest problem is psychological. Such a child will have been reared as a girl, and the emotional switchover to boyhood or manhood is so difficult that some patients refuse the hurdle; then the doctors make them more womanly...
Marine Milestone. As the son of a prosperous physician in Norfolk, Va., Shepherd had few boyhood dreams of the military life. The family maintained a stable and so did many of their friends, who had farms in fashionably horsy Fauquier County. Lem just rode-and rode. He was sent to Virginia Military Institute because 1) he did not seem to have an aptitude for law (in which case he would automatically have been sent to the University of Virginia) and 2) V.M.I., in his family's eyes, was much better than West Point. Young Lem was a reluctant student...