Word: galvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN I commented to Virginia Johnson last week on what a harmonious project this had turned out to be, she said, 'Well of course it's the subject that does it.' " The subject was human sexual behavior. And the project for BEHAVIOR Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin was interviewing Dr. William Howell Masters and his associate, Mrs. Virginia Johnson, the co-authors of Human Sexual Inadequacy, for this week's cover story...
...Reporter Galvin's first meeting with the researchers involved dinner at the home of Mrs. Johnson -who long ago learned that restaurant eavesdroppers make dining-out interviews impossible. Galvin was not at all surprised to find her hostess entertaining in slacks. "After all, that's fashionable," she says, "but it was a bit startling to have Dr. Masters come in the door a few minutes later wearing orange terry-cloth jogging pants. He explained that they always dress this way on Sundays to make it seem as if they are not working-though most of the time they...
Initial queries to correspondents, an operation that we have managed to streamline fairly well over the years, mysteriously disappeared or arrived so garbled as to be unintelligible. One Teletype machine actually developed a lisp. Clarifications were quickly sent out, prompting Boston Correspondent Ruth Galvin to reply: "Re clarification of clarification: don't apologize. The project is taking a little time because I can't get a dial tone on my telephone, one source is unavailable because his lines are down, and another is tied up with a faulty furnace." After an on-schedule, trouble-free flight into Detroit...