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...much care what they said because I don't believe them." Dr. Menninger scoffed at "a certain naivete in Dr. Kinsey's approach to the problem." Accurate scientific research into human sexuality is more difficult than among Kinsey's first subjects, the gall wasps, he said, "since sex is some thing that people do only in a bedroom." He criticized Kinsey's attempt to express human sex life in statistics showing the frequency of orgasm. "Is orgasm the goal of life? There is some importance, after all, in reproduction of the species...
...irate daddy, 76-year-old Industrialist John R. Winter, fired the persuasive Brazilian. According to John, Sabino forthwith threatened to "pump me full of hot lead," and made John write off all debts on the clothes, TV set and car, and on top of that had the gall to demand a $100-a-week salary for life...
...flesh crawls at the unmitigated gall of your article...
Torydom's other distinguished invalid, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, was convalescing on the Mediterranean from a gall-bladder operation and two follow-up sessions with the surgeons. As evidence of his recuperation, it was officially announced that either Eden or Lord Salisbury would head up the British delegates to the U.N. Sept. 25. But many among his supporters wondered whether Eden could regain the strength necessary for a full-time Foreign Secretary-or Prime Minister...
...looked as though, in its professor of zoology, Indiana University had a man who would enjoy fame only in the narrow circle of gall-wasp taxonomists. But in 1938 some undergraduates asked Dr. Kinsey about sex adjustments in marriage. Then he was off. He forsook the birds, bees & flowers for human specimens. And though the study of sexual behavior has since absorbed him so completely, Kinsey says with a straight face: "Frankly, I should think the public would be extremely tired of the subject...