Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important genes, Szondi says, determine people's lives & loves. In the field of romance, like attracts like-to disaster. Lovers with bad mental and emotional characteristics, caused by "sick" genes, should avoid marrying people with the same type of bad genes. An apparently healthy man with a schizophrenic grandmother, Szondi claims, is likely to fall in love with a girl whose ancestors suffered from the same kind of insanity. Their children, of course, would inherit a double dose of gene-damnation...
...Lovers. Psychiatrist Szondi knows no way of curing sick genes. But he believes that he can act as a sort of Dorothy Dix of dementia. With a test he has devised, he hopes to spot latent mental illnesses and warn gene-crossed lovers against compounding their illnesses by marriage. The test is made with photographs: a scientifically selected rogues' gallery of insanity...
...other eight Crimson entries in the Knights of Columbus games won't have to contend with the world's number one hurdler, but they will have their hands full. Pole-vaulters Bill Lawrence and Gene Lockett with match leaps with Bob Richards of Illinois (winner of last year's Millrose vault at 14 feet, and the favorite tonight), Boo Morcom, University of New Hampshire triple-threat field man, and Yalio freshmen Bill Apel, who set a national schoolboy record of 12 feet, six inches at Andover last year...
Elsewhere, the men to watch tomorrow are Ruby Fobert (Tufts) in the broad jump, Warren Willette (Northeastern) in the high jump, Bill Lawrence and Gene Lockett (Harvard) in the pole vault, and big Geoffrey Tootell (Harvard) in the shot...
Reporter with a Hope. In his efforts to catch up, Editor McGill has worked hard to make a reputation as a "fighting Southern liberal" in the Ku Klux Klan's home town. In 1942, he was a big help in keeping Gene Talmadge out of the Governor's mansion and getting Ellis Arnall...