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Last week came the revelation that Christine Jorgensen was no girl at all, only an altered male...
...Christine Jorgensen's homecoming, when she "tossed off a Bloody Mary" [TIME, Feb. 23]: Apparently my colloquial vocabulary has not kept pace with TIME'S; it does not seem to encompass a Bloody Mary...
Homecoming Early last December, in one of the year's outstanding contributions to tabloid titillation, the New York Daily News led the pack in discovering Christine Jorgensen, the ex-G.I. from The Bronx who reported that Danish doctors had converted him into a woman (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week, fittingly, it was the News which best answered the "who, what, when, where" as it reported Christine's gala homecoming. Said the News: "Christine Jorgensen, the lad who became a lady, arrived home from Denmark yesterday, lit a cigarette like a girl, husked 'Hello' and tossed...
...News, however, no longer had Christine to itself. At New York's International Airport to welcome home the blonde who used to be George Jorgensen were some 350 curious citizens and a phalanx of photographers and reporters. When Christine appeared, a woman in the crowd turned to her little girl and said: "Look, Ruthie. She used to be a man" wrote the News with high disdain: "Ruthie stared popeyed. All she needed was a bag of peanuts and a bottle of soda...
...Crimson freshmen also won handily, 63 to 21--but they broke one record and tied another in doing so. A team of Ed Benton at the backstroke, Dave Hawkins at the breast-stroke, and Jim Jorgensen at the free-style tied the Harvard freshman record for the 300-yard medley relay with a time of 3:07.9 minutes...