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...Kinsey is a friendly man with a passionate interest in people. Says Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner (whom he interviewed as part of his "female sample"): "He has the skill of a great actor in drawing you into what he is doing. He attracts you like a magnet. You forget all your fears and have complete confidence in him." But lately, as the weight of work has increased, Kinsey has become almost a recluse. He sees less and less of his old faculty friends, though most of them still like him. He can be impatient and cutting. His attacks on scientists...
...Kinsey works 14 or more hours six days a week, and most of Sundays. An insomniac, he will often work in the middle of a sleepless night. He is compulsive about keeping appointments on the dot. He does not know how to relax. He can delegate little work, though his heart has begun to protest and doctors have warned him that he must rest. This summer he subjected himself to tremendous strain by personally handling his elaborate press relations-with results that a professional pressagent might envy. Though he decries publicity for himself, he wants it for his work...
...Kinsey married Clara Bracken McMillen in 1921, when she was a graduate student in chemistry and he a young assistant professor of zoology at Indiana. Prok and Mac, as he calls her, have raised three children (a boy died in infancy): Anne, 30, married to Warren Corning of Chicago; Joan, 28, married to Dr. Robert Reid of Columbus, Ind. and Bruce, 24, a graduate business student at Indiana U. Mrs. Kinsey, a wiry, tweedy woman with neat black hair, now greying slightly, has gladly subordinated her life to her husband's career. As she once innocently expressed...
...Kinsey's only concession to the social amenities is to hold Sunday-evening record recitals. But he is no relaxed amateur. He is a relentless musicologist, and his soirees are an exacting ritual. He plans a carefully balanced program and gathers material for commentary. Guests arrive on the stroke of 8 and are seated in a hieratic U pattern with the high-fidelity player and the master's chair at the open end of the U. All talk is hushed as Kinsey picks up the first record and announces why he thinks it worth playing. The ladies...
Among Bloomington's music lovers it is an honor to be invited to a Kinsey soiree. But some have stopped going because the emotional undertones in Kinsey's intensity made them uncomfortable. Though he drinks and smokes only rarely, to put others at their ease, Kinsey makes an equally elaborate ritual of mixing a drink. (He is no kin to the late Jacob G. Kinsey, whose name graces bottles of blended whisky, although Philadelphia's Kinsey Distilling Corp. keeps getting requests for "free sex books," and sells more whisky, thanks to its namesake...