Word: denmark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced on the radio and we left Brno for Prague the same night. This time we didn't walk, however, for there was no time. I had to burn my valuable letters; what ashes they made!" After hiding in Prague for three weeks Jakobson and his wife escaped to Denmark with the help of some friends. During the next year he and his wife shuttled all around the Scandinavian countries, finally settling in Oslo...
...TIME, Dec. 15), or to careful readers of Jorgensen's own story in the Hearst newspapers. Jorgensen, a onetime G.I. named George, told how he "was in ... affections more like a woman than a man"; how two years ago, at 24, he had heard of a doctor in Denmark who might help him live like the woman he wanted to be; how the Danish doctors had diagnosed him as a transvestite,* treated him for a year with female hormones, then operated on him to remove "the evidences of masculinity...
...York Post put the facts on the line. Reporter Alvin Davis, who flew to Denmark to interview Jorgensen's doctors, established two main points: 1) Jorgensen's case was not one of hermaphroditism or pseudohermaphroditism; 2) in an attempt to accommodate his urge to transvestitism, his Danish doctors had simply amputated penis and testes. left him a male castrate. The disclosure kicked up a storm of discussion around questions of medical practice...
...Stuerup, who is in charge of administering his country's program of voluntary emasculation, feels Denmark is effectively treating sex criminals instead of punishing them, points to some statistics: in Denmark only 3.7% of voluntarily castrated sex criminals repeat their crimes as compared to 43% of the uncastrated. He considers the U.S. attitude a childish and hypocritical taboo. "In America," he says, "a surgeon can operate on any organ in the body, including the brain. But he may not operate on the testes. That is a hypocrisy which the mature society of Denmark refuses to accept." How will...
King Frederik of Denmark held a small royal traffic court of his own. His uncle, Prince Rene de Bourbon-Parma, 59, a Copenhagen meat exporter, recently rammed two cars in a hit & run accident after a drinking bout. Since the Prince is a member of the royal family and immune to prosecution in the courts, the King himself pronounced sentence: no driving for a year...