Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prince Aly Khan, a demigod to five million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, and heir to one of the biggest fortunes in the world.* Though Rita was still the wife of onetime Wonder Boy Orson Welles, and Aly had not yet severed his marital tie with British-born Joan Yarde-Buller (exwife of Brewing Heir Thomas Loel Guinness), the lovers showed all the symptoms of sophomores in the throes of their first passion...
...shooting U.S. films in foreign locations. Despite technical difficulties, Hollywood has found that production abroad pays off in fresh, authentic atmosphere and in melting its frozen funds in foreign countries. Producer Wanger's European junket would also lay the groundwork for a film in Italy starring his wife, Joan Bennett. Of other U.S. producers working abroad, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck leads the field in pictures already made, and will have six going at once this summer-in Hong Kong, the Caribbean, Africa, Italy and England...
...patient was 23 years old and seemed to be a good-looking girl. But the first question Dr. Louis William Mara-ventano was asked in his Yonkers (N.Y.) office was: "What am I, a man or a woman?" "Joan" (the real name was withheld) was a pseudohermaphrodite* whose external genitals resembled both male and female organs. Something had gone wrong (doctors are not sure just how) during fetal development when the time came for the undifferentiated sex organs to become either completely male or completely female. The condition occurs in about one in 1,000 births; accurate figures are hard...
...Joan had been brought up and had gone through high school as a girl; she had taken a secretarial course as a girl. But she knew that something was wrong. Menstruation had not started at the usual time. After puberty, hair had begun to grow on her face, and she had to shave every day. She used cosmetics to hide the stubble on her cheeks, and wore falsies to build out her flat chest. She had few dates with...
Preliminary examination (the distribution of body hair, etc.) indicated that Joan was primarily male, but an operation might show that the doctors and Joan could choose. Said Joan: "I'd rather...