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Scuppered Admiral. When World War II broke out, blonde, green-eyed Cynthia had been married for nine years to Arthur Pack, a colorless British diplomat who was nearly twice her age. The daughter of a U.S. Marine Corps colonel, at 29 she was adventurous, astute, attractive and, from diligent years...
Long Thoughts. Predictably, people prominent in politics and show business tend to have the lowest coefficients, indicating "a close and diligent concern by the individual for matters pertaining to his own personality." Richard Nixon, Dr. McLandress finds, has a McL-C of three seconds, probably the lowest in U.S. politics...
A farm boy from Possum Hollow, near Granville, Tenn., Gore worked his way through a state teachers college at Murfreesboro by teaching country school. Later, after taking courses offered by the Y.M.C.A., he got a law degree, decided to enter politics, campaigned with a fiddle that scraped out lively hillbilly...
Wilson almost never attends a play or a concert, confesses to feeling "guilty" if he wastes even a few weekend hours on a novel. Sighs an old acquaintance: "He's dull and devious-God, how devious-diligent and deliberate. He hasn't got a principle in his head...
> Herpes simplex infections in the newborn, ranging in severity from little ulcers in the mouth to a crippling encephalitis, were always believed to have been picked up while the baby was passing through the birth canal. This is not necessarily so, say Drs. Joe E. Mitchell and Fred C. McCall...