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Christine Jorgensen . . . for Man and/or Woman of the year...
...swimmers placed first in five of the nine events. Gus Johnson won the 50 yard freestyle, Ed Benton took the 100 yard backstroke. James Jorgensen won the 100 yard freestyle in 54 seconds flat, and Dick Plant captured the 150 yard individual medley...
...banner headline: EX-G.I. BECOMES BLONDE BEAUTY. Said the story: "A Bronx youth, who served two years in the Army during the war and was honorably discharged, has been transformed by the wizardry of medical science into a beautiful woman." Under the banner were pictures of George W. Jorgensen, 26, the George who "is no more," and Christine, "the new woman" he became after "five major operations, a minor operation and almost 2,000 [hormone] injections" in a Copenhagen hospital...
...dated Christine six months ago. When they asked him for details, he obligingly observed: "She's got a personality that's hard to beat, and the best body of any girl I ever met." Many an editor and reporter found himself in the same fix as father Jorgensen, who blurted out amidst all the uproar: "This business is very confusing. I'll be in the middle of a conversation and I'll say 'he' when I mean...
...spite of a lightning flash that skittered down some loose wires and across his basement workroom, freckled, 13-year-old Dick Jorgensen of Chevy Chase, Md. managed to put together a workable TV set one afternoon last week. He wasn't the first electronics-minded youngster to do it, but Dick gave the stunt a new wrinkle: he assembled his set entirely from spare parts scrounged out of refuse barrels behind TV repair shops. This week Dick was on the prowl again. "I'm building an oscilloscope,"* he explained, "and I still need a few parts...