Word: clubfooted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Anne Carlsen was born in Grantsburg, Wis., she had only stubs of arms ending above the elbow, her right leg ended above the knee, and the left was malformed, ending in a clubfoot. Left motherless at four, Anne got tireless encouragement from her father, an elder sister and four brothers. On a coaster wagon she learned to take part in a modified version of baseball. At eight she was pronounced ready for school, but only after a psychologist had gone over her and solemnly pronounced her "educable." Anne raced through two grades a year...
...knee that innocent Hilary encounters is the shank of an old derelict whom she meets at the amusement park in her seaside home town of Henstable. Later that afternoon Hilary sees the old man lead another little girl across the marshes. Watching his "clumsy horror, the surgical boot, the clubfoot," she decides that he is the Devil. When she reads in the paper that the little girl has been murdered, Hilary is sure "the Devil...
...they had expected to marry. There were nine cases of shock or accident. With some overlaps, such factors were found in 66% of the retarded children's backgrounds, but in only 30% of the normal children's. Among the retarded children, 15% had physical deformities (fused fingers, clubfoot), ten times the rate among comparison groups...
Indicating the confusion among the lay public and some doctors over what defects are hereditary, Dr. Kemp lists an amazing variety of conditions on which "genetic counseling"-at least some of it leading to sterilization-has been given. Among them are many, such as harelip, clubfoot and similar malformations, which may be congenital (in that a child has them at birth) but which are not, so far as is known, the result of defective genes, and therefore are not predetermined at conception. They are caused by events, still unknown, occurring during life in the womb, and some of them...
...hero is a sharecropper's son named Max Harper, a simple, violent, yet good-hearted fellow with a clubfoot. He falls in love with the landlord's daughter and develops an understandable hatred for her mean, spoiled brother. The paternalistic but unscrupulous landlord persuades young Harper to sign lying papers in order to get his clubfoot straightened at an insurance company's expense. Healed, Harper becomes a combat infantryman in World War II. He returns to find his cabin burned down, his girl married, and the landlord's wicked son in charge of the farm. When...