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...London last week, the world's biggest daily, the tabloid Mirror (circ. 4,432,700) got out its three-inch type for a single banner headline: WOMEN. In smaller type, the Mirror added: Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the World's No. 1 Sexo-analyst, Blows the Gaff Today on All About Eve. Indiana's Dr. Alfred Kinsey was not alone in blowing the gaff. K-day -the prearranged release date* for a summary of his book on Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (TIME, Aug. 24)-set off the biggest and raciest commotion the world...
Self-Analysis. In reporting Kinsey's findings, newspapers revealed as much about themselves as Kinsey did about women. The New York Times had refused to sign the contract required to cover the event, used only a 1,000-word condensation of the A.P.'s summary-and buried that on the book page. With characteristic spleen, the Chicago Tribune reported the news, denounced Kinsey as a "real menace to society...
...wistfully called its readers' attention to the fact that it had passed up the "most sensational news story in the history of journalism." The stately Philadelphia Bulletin had a worse case of split personality. It had signed the agreement, sent a reporter to Bloomington, Ind. to get the Kinsey report story, and had his 3,300-word summary written. But it finally killed the story with this rueful notice to readers: "It is impossible to present any adequate summary of the findings without giving unnecessary offense to many in [our] large family of readers . . . For those who want...
Armed with his Sc.D. from Harvard (he has no M.D.), Kinsey joined the Indiana faculty. But a classroom could not hold him. He was forever searching scrub oaks for gall wasps, which fascinated him as living proof that evolution is still going on. When he had collected thousands of specimens in southern Indiana and recorded 28 microscopic measurements of each in a growing pile of statistics, Kinsey had to go farther and farther afield. Eventually he logged 80,000 miles of travel (much of it with Mrs. Kinsey and the children along as helpers) and 3,500,000 gall wasps...
...looked as though, in its professor of zoology, Indiana University had a man who would enjoy fame only in the narrow circle of gall-wasp taxonomists. But in 1938 some undergraduates asked Dr. Kinsey about sex adjustments in marriage. Then he was off. He forsook the birds, bees & flowers for human specimens. And though the study of sexual behavior has since absorbed him so completely, Kinsey says with a straight face: "Frankly, I should think the public would be extremely tired of the subject...