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Married. Anton Lang Jr., faculty member at Georgetown University, son of the onetime "Christus" of the Oberammergau Passion Play; and Clara Mayr, this year's Oberammergau "Magdalene," in Oberammergau. Mrs. Lang's role will be filled by Fraülein Ritta Kosch...
Clarence anticipates some difficulties in abandoning Clara's habits. Said he last week: "I like dresses better than overalls. And I'd rather mind the young ones than plant corn...
Twenty years ago such an anomaly was born on a scrabbly farm near Pittsburgh to a poor Pennsylvania Dutch family named Schreckengost. The Schreckengosts named the child Clara and brought her up as a girl. After Clara was 10, she ceased to grow. Her features acquired a slanting cast and she gave no physiological evidence of oncoming womanhood...
Last summer an agent of the Pittsburgh Humane Society found Clara lumbering about the farm. The agent took Clara to Pittsburgh's Western Pennsylvania Hospital to see if anything could be done about her hermaphroditism...
...other years, to determine Clara's sex, a surgeon would have been obliged to cut her open and a histologist would have had to study microscopic snips of her internal organs. Now, however, all that was necessary was a test of her blood and urine on virgin rats and spayed mice. If Clara was a true female, her specimens would contain glandular secretions called hormones which would put the rodents into rut. The test was made; Clara was a boy. Thereupon surgeons started a series of major operations to release the latent seeds of manhood. Last week it was announced...