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...HAVE said that Baldwin is intro-respective. He is also extremely self-conscious, and the combination produce in him a state of near hyper-sensitivity, toward both himself and others. This could be a crippling handicap; and even with Baldwin sensitivity does have drawbacks. One of these is a near-obsession with certain aspects of being a Negro. Probably the most evident is sex: the question of Negro sexuality arises again and again, each time in a new context...
...just rejoined her family, is so shy and bewildered in the mortal world that she is unable to answer questions, and has difficulty climbing stairs, since as a goddess she was always carried up and down. Most of the ex-goddesses turn into unhappy old maids. Their handicap in husband-hunting: the rigidly held belief that the man who ends the virginity of a former Kumari will die after six months...
Johnstone--not a member of the Crimson golf team--took low gross honors with a 75, and Livingood, captain of the Harvard squad, won low net competition with a 69. (He grossed 76, and points were deducted according to the Callaway Handicap system, which is used to encourage one and all to compete...
...happened. Richard J. Hughes, 52, was the reception's guest of honor-and the Democratic candidate for Governor of New Jersey. The woman's question was illustrative of his worst handicap in the most significant state election of 1961: hardly anyone knows Dick Hughes, while his Republican opponent, James P. Mitchell, Labor Secretary in the Eisenhower Administration, is one of New Jersey's most famous citizens...
...Handicapping is no job for a sensitive man. Owners complain bitterly about "unfair" weights, but Trotter shrugs off such criticism with the impassivity of a baseball umpire. Fortnight ago, when he assigned 136 lbs.-heaviest handicap of his career-to the speedy, four-year-old gelding, Kelso, in the $112,800 Brooklyn Handicap, Trotter said calmly: "I expect complaints." None came-although Kelso had to spurt from behind to eke out a narrow, 1¼-length victory. "He's one of the great ones," said Handicapper Trotter after the race. "No question about it." Then Trotter added: "Of course...