Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Gayn's father was a Russian lumberman. Most of Gayn's childhood was spent at sawmill settlements, mostly on the Manchuria-Mongolia border. Some of his closest acquaintances were the Chinese bandits who sold Father Gayn "protective security" - and went after him with a gun if he failed to pay up. Some times Father Gayn's sawmills were run by Russian convicts ("I knocked the hats off some fellows," explained one convict, "and the police found heads inside the hats...
...Western Pacific Islands. Many N.M.P.s are so good that Europeans prefer them to white doctors (in the islands there are about 20 white doctors, 200 N.M.P.s for 1,000,000 people). But N.M.P.s' chief job is to care for their own people. Native diseases are bad: yaws (a childhood skin disease caused by a spirochete), malaria and blackwater fever, filariasis (worm infestation which frequently ends as elephantiasis). The imported diseases are often worse: diphtheria, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, leprosy, measles (which is often fatal to South Pacific natives who have not yet acquired immunity). The N.M.P.s vaccinate, fight mosquitoes, teach latrine...
Personal anecdotes about her are carefully winnowed by Sir Eric Mièville. her father's secretary, and only the "suitable" ones become public. Once, in childhood, Elizabeth was asked what she would most like to be. Said she: "A horse...
Last week, with New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning, Dr. Ray co-officiated at his own daughter's wartime wedding. But there was nothing hasty about it. Pretty, popular Kathryna Hoffman Ray, 19, whose mother was a Manhattan socialite, was a childhood friend of her 27-year-old Army Air Forces lieutenant groom, Courtlandt Nicoll, Manhattan socialite whose family attends the Little Church. Among the bride's wedding presents was her father's latest book, dedicated to her: Marriage Is a Serious Business (Whittlesey House; $2). It is full of the rector's warmly...
...opposite sex." To most people Lonergan does not look like a homosexual. Contrary to popular legend, homosexuals are not necessarily physically abnormal, though sometimes a glandular disturbance is involved. As a rule, homosexuals are made, not born. Psychologists W. Norwood East and W. H. Herbert list seduction in childhood as the commonest precipitating cause. Other causes: 1) a tendency to varied and primitive sexual outlets; 2) an inherited tendency. From Lonergan's repudiated confession to the police he would seem to fall into the varied and primitive sexual outlet group...