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...twin beds and separate bedrooms partly responsible for the U.S.'s unhappy marriages and high divorce rate? M. F. Ashley Montague, British-born anthropologist and author, thinks they may be. In the current issue of Psychiatry, he writes...
Dorothy Brett, brown-eyed, bustling, British-born artist who painted eleven eerie portraits of Leopold Stokowski for which he never sat (TIME, May 8), was refused permission by her subject to hang them in Manhattan's City Center. Said Stokowski: "They are too, too fantastic-too imaginative for the Center." But he admitted he liked them, consented to have them displayed for art lovers at Manhattan's Norlyst Gallery...
...anthropologist who has never been in Japan has offered Allied leaders a new study of Japanese psychology. He is British-born Geoffrey Gorer, 39, anthropological researcher of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, now doing secret research in Washington for the British Government. He places great importance on the severe toilet training of Japanese infants...
...Born. To Hjalmar Johan Procope, 54, just-deported Finnish Minister to the U.S. (TIME, June 26); and Margaret Shaw Procope, 33, his British-born wife, who was given permission to remain in the U.S. for the birth: their third child, a son; in Washington. Weight...
Married. General Morris Abraham ("Two-Gun") Cohen, 57, old China hand and soldier of fortune; and Judith Clark, 40, proprietress of Montreal's Judith Clark dress shop; she for the second time, he for the first; in Montreal. A British-born onetime clothes peddler, he met China's late great Sun Yat-sen in Vancouver's Chinatown, became his personal bodyguard, later led Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese regulars and served in Europe as a secret agent for the Chinese...