Word: lancasterism
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Blessed with a private income from his parents in Lancaster, Pa., coddled in childhood, lame, diabetic, vain, insecure and brilliantly talented, Demuth lacked neither admirers nor colleagues. He was well read, his tastes formed by Pater, Huysmans, Maeterlinck and the Yellow Book, and he gravitated to Greenwich Village as a...
What ever happened to Yvonne De Carlo? You remember her: the torrid brunet who started as a harem handmaiden and by dint of hard work, moxie and what her lover Howard Hughes called a "nice set of lavalieres" became queen of costume dramas in the '40s and '50s. For one...
Denver Housewife Jeannie Lancaster suspected that something was wrong with her son a few months after his birth. "He was always fussy and would never cuddle," she remembers. "When I would go to pick him up, he would arch away." By the time he was one, he had acquired the...
It was only after Lancaster had given birth to a second son who showed some of the same mysterious symptoms that a family doctor began to suspect the cause. He had just returned from a medical seminar on a newly recognized disorder called Fragile X syndrome, which results from a...
However the syndrome is discovered, the first few years of the infant's life are crucial. The greatest improvement among slow-learning or mentally retarded Fragile X children occurs when therapy begins early. Both Lancaster boys have undergone intensive speech, language, balance and coordination training, along with a more controversial...