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...Ohio State University's Professor (of Pediatrics) Hilda Knobloch told it, she and Psychiatrist Benjamin Pasamanick had reasoned that more mentally deficient children would be born in late summer and early fall, because virus infections, which can damage the fetus, are commonest in winter. But when they checked the birth dates of nearly 6,000 mentally deficient children born in Columbus from 1913 through 1948, they found, on the contrary, least mental deficiency among babies born in August, September and October. It was commonest among those born in the year's first quarter, with the peak among February...
...first-quarter birth meant that the crucial early months of pregnancy had been in the heat of summer. The winters when most mentally deficient children were born had followed exceptionally hot summers. Dr. Knobloch's conclusion: the mothers had not eaten enough-certainly not a balanced diet with adequate protein -with consequent damage to their developing babies...
...Linse was a man the Communists wanted badly (TIME, July 21) and he was on guard. Before Knobloch's team was brought into action, another group of Communist thugs had tried three times to kidnap Dr. Linse, and failed. Then team No. 2-Knobloch, a professional wrestler and two other bully boys-got the alert. At 7:20 on the morning of July 8, an East German Opel, disguised as a West Berlin taxicab, stopped outside Linse's home. Linse emerged and Knobloch asked him for a light. As Linse fumbled for his lighter, the wrestler pinioned...
...stiffened his legs, thus held the car doors open. The thug sitting beside the driver pumped a bullet into Linse's legs; they relaxed and the door closed. Inside the Soviet zone, Paul and a major in the People's Police were waiting; they took Dr. Linse. Knobloch and his buddies got a six-week, all-expenses-paid vacation and a $250 bonus...
Last week, after signing the confession, Knobloch returned to his cell, became hysterical, ripped apart a tin can and nicked his left wrist artery, then beat on the wall, screaming: "Help me! I don't want to die!" Knobloch would not die. At the most, he might get 15 years for kidnaping. But what of Dr. Linse? Five stiff U.S. notes of protest had brought only Red shrugs. The Reds had Dr. Linse and the West had only a stupid, repentant, petty criminal named Kurt Knobloch...