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Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, now serving a five-year sentence for conspiracy in Atlanta's federal penitentiary, entered the prison hospital to have his infected gall bladder removed...
...your Dec. 15 Personality sketch of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, you say: "Kinsey traveled 80,000 miles collecting gall wasps, and he measured, catalogued and preserved 3,500,000 specimens to demonstrate their individual variations." Assuming that it would require at least ten minutes to catch, make 28 measurements, and catalogue a single gall wasp, I calculate it would require Dr. Kinsey approximately 13½ years to complete the job on the basis of a 12-hour day. This allows no days off, no time for lunch, and no time to salve the stings (assuming gall wasps sting). Furthermore...
...Kinsey's study of the secret life of the gall wasp (they don't sting) took some 25 years. He had help from a research staff of graduate students, other scientists and, occasionally, his own family...
...give a "Marriage Course." Students asked Kinsey about sex, and he was shocked to discover how little was known scientifically about the sexual behavior of human beings. Before this, he seems to have had no particular interest in the subject. But once he got started, it was the gall wasp all over again. When he began his research, some of his scientific colleagues (and their wives) cut him dead, and the period of semi-ostracism left him somewhat touchy and thin-skinned...
...reaction to Kinsey's gall-wasp approach to sex has been mixed, to say the least. His statistic-crammed, 804-page book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948), was published by a medical publishing house (W. B. Saunders Co.) and cost $6.50, but it shot up on the bestseller list with the aid of free publicity and loud denunciations. The weightiest denunciations came from religious and moral leaders, who pointed out that Kinsey's examination of men's sex life altogether denied the existence of any moral factor whatever in sexual relations...