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...whisked ashore and shipped off to Brazil. As O'Brien departed amid general sighs of relief, the Hong Kong police revealed that he was no Irishman at all, but a Hungarian named Istvan Ragan, whose youth had been passed largely in U.S. jails and reform schools, whose manhood was spent mostly in Shanghai's Blood Alley, where procuring, white slavery and dope peddling is the way of life...
...given name was Vinayak, but Gandhi changed it to Vinoba in later years, and the disciple accepted it as his name. At ten the boy began his career of holy man: he made a resolution of lifelong celibacy, gave up sweets and started going barefoot. Gandhi, who in young manhood was a lawyer and a comfortably married man, admired Vinoba's untarnished virginity. The Mahatma frequently said that his only regret in life was that he had known the delights...
...Angelo himself did not even suspect his powers until he was well into manhood. A poor boy who never got beyond the third grade, he was an acrobat and stilt-walker in a circus until one day in 1934, when he fell off his stilts and broke his skull. When he came to, as he tells it now, he amazed both himself and his nurse by his clairvoyant ability to recite her past. He set himself up in a back street as the Mago di Napoli and practiced clairvoyance...
...present, Menotti will be busy directing new performances of his operas: Amahl and the Night Visitors for TV on Christmas Day (he had to find a new boy soprano, since two earlier ones are teetering on the vocal edge of manhood) and a concert performance of The Consul in Philadelphia next month. After that he will concentrate on the score and libretto of The Saint of Bleecker Street, which "may take me five years. I don't care. I have been reading about saints. It is very difficult...
...glands and organs are so malformed as to be mistaken for female. When this condition is discovered (often as late as puberty, though it should be earlier), the biggest problem is psychological. Such a child will have been reared as a girl, and the emotional switchover to boyhood or manhood is so difficult that some patients refuse the hurdle; then the doctors make them more womanly...