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...eccentricity or the possession of a gnawing fear is not necessarily a handicap; it may be an asset. Dr. Earl D. Bond, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatry professor, assured a convention of insurance doctors in Asheville, N.C. that "normal" people are not very "interesting''; they don't even seem to be entirely human. Other Bond findings...
...bulk of the U.S. population (perhaps 133,000,000 of the country's inhabitants) struggle or will struggle through life with "some unnecessary handicap of nervousness." They may be over-conscientious, oversensitive, or plagued by fears, prejudices, feelings of inferiority. Many individuals and families in this group are poor insurance risks because they seem to have an affinity for accidents (which psychiatrists explain as evidence of an unconscious urge to suicide). A classic case: a guilt-ridden patient who had had 24 major disasters, wrecked eleven automobiles. But this group also includes most leaders and "responsibility takers...
...Bumps, No Fouls. Close by, as the horses lined up for the start, sat Millionaire Cattleman Robert Kleberg, who had passed up a chance to see his great horse Assault win the $40,000 Grey Lag Handicap at New York's Jamaica track. He had posted his $15,000 on Miss Princess, the race track horse he had converted to quarter horsing. Unlike Shue Fly, who is really a glorified range horse and bred for short racing, Princess was royally sired (by Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture). She had once flashed dizzy speed on regulation race tracks-but couldn...
Felix has marked difficulties with the language but despite dialectical handicap he cuts through with ease if something is really on his mind. Passers-by do a double-take when they see him in animated conversation with such figures as Pound, Morize, or Copeland. During spare minutes he likes to scan his stock of magazines. Indeed, only an overriding sense of nationality, ranks in his makeup with this semiliterate but deadly earnest intellectual streak. A leader in Hellenic causes, he has helped to form the Megalopolitan Club of the United States to raise money for the construction of modern schools...
...China, Christianity has no competition-except secularism-among educated people. Its greatest handicap is the appalling poverty of the country. The inflation has been most ruinous to those upon whom the spread of Christianity depends...