Word: norval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sawyer hurried home to Fort Smith, Ark. (pop. 47,942) and went to work, getting bills drawn up to outlaw this "national menace," thundering against it over his radio program. To get his point across, he played a tape-recorded "confession of a 13-year-old nudist girl." Nudist Norval Packwood, executive director of the American Sunbathing Association (with more than 15,000 members), wrote to Evangelist Sawyer and invited him to the A.S.A. national convention at Battle Creek, Mich, "to learn the real truth about nudism." Last week, as the nudists shucked their clothes at Battle Creek...
Whacked Children. The angularity of mind and body was hers by inheritance. She was born 42 years ago in Hartford, Conn., the second of the six children of Katharine Houghton and Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, a noted urologist and surgeon. Her father, a transplanted Virginian, was so moved by Brieux's crusading play about syphilis, Damaged Goods (and by the preface written to it by Bernard Shaw), that he risked ostracism by his campaign to bring the facts about venereal disease into the open. With Harvard's Dr. Charles Eliot, he founded the American Social Hygiene Association. Kate...
Other signers of the statement were: Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Olin Downes, Professor Thomas Emerson, Judge Norval K. Harris, Dr. John A. Kingsbury, Professor Robert Lynd, Carey McWilliams, Professor Philip Morrison, Professor Linius Pauling, Dr. Walter Rautenstrauch, I. F. Stone, and Professor Colston E. Warne...