Word: newman
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...there are at least 2,000,000 people who are twins, triplets or quadruplets. The man who gets asked most about them is Geneticist Horatio Hackett Newman of the University of Chicago. In the past 25 years he has received hundreds of letters from twins, "supertwins," parents of twins, and women who want them. They ask him all sorts of questions, "some sensible, some rather silly." Last fortnight Professor Newman published a book on Multiple Human Births (Doubleday, Doran; $2.50) which ought to get him ahead of the questions for the next few years...
Twins lead a hazardous existence before and during birth. In the uterus they are crowded. Many are born prematurely, many are injured at birth. About one-quarter of all twins born die in the first ten days of life. "Extensive studies of twins of all ages," says Professor Newman, "have revealed a higher frequency of mental defectives among twins than among the singly born." But if they escape the hazards of infancy, twins "are as capable as are singly born pupils in the same schools...
Chicago Fair. To study the effects of heredity and environment, Professor Newman invited to the Chicago World's Fair ten pairs of identical twins who had been separated since infancy. In some cases they had not even met since childhood. Many had lived strikingly similar lives. "Edwin" and "Fred," for example, both became electricity repair men, married the same year; each had a baby son and a fox terrier named Trixie...
...twins with similar educations had similar mental capacities. Small differences in education had not affected this equality, but large differences did. (Dr. Newman nevertheless believes that mental growth is bounded by heredity's limitations. "With a good education a poorly endowed person can improve his ability to a moderate degree but cannot reach the level of a potentially able but poorly educated person...
From Tunbridge Wells, England, wrote F. D. Newman, 68, great-nephew of England's late, great Catholic Convert John Henry Cardinal Newman, to Manhattan's American Committee for Defense of British Homes, asking for: "a gun or some standard but powerful automatic or machine gun, which one man can handle in defense of his home. I can shoot from the hip with a revolver in each hand at once...