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Before the "Browns became international celebrities, they lived quietly in a white row house in Easton, a neighborhood in Bristol, about 150 miles from Oldham. "Ever such a nice couple," say neighbors. John Brown apparently likes few things better than to tinker with his automobile and, even before the current furor, kept largely to himself. Says a friend: "He is a very polite bloke. I don't think he socializes with a lot of people." Still, the Browns, who live with John's 17-year-old daughter by a previous marriage, are hardly recluses. Before Lesley Brown was sequestered...
...journalists pursued the story, information slowly dribbled out. Some of it came directly from the family through the Daily Mail under the syndication deal, but other facts were unearthed by reporters in Oldham, some of whom were not above using £20 notes to loosen the lips of anyone even vaguely in the know...
...ethical questions raised by scientific advances in procreation can only become more urgent as new techniques are explored and developed. Robert Edwards, Steptoe's partner in the Oldham experiment, has advocated test-tube selection of the offspring's sex, though only to reduce such sex-linked diseases as hemophilia. Politician Abse fears that "we are moving to a time when an embryo purchaser could select in advance the color of the baby's eyes and its probable...
...Lantana, Fla., headquarters and arrived on Steptoe's doorstep to buy worldwide rights to the story of the test-tube baby. When Steptoe hesitated, the Floridians looked to other sources. According to London's Sunday Times, the Enquirer team tried to buy details from nurses at Oldham and District General Hospital and offered $97,500 to the administrator of a research trust for Steptoe...
...great press circus was on. The Oldham News was out with a major story the next day; London's Daily Mail is said to have offered $190 to an Oldham reporter for the parents' names, and journalists began pouring into town from around the world. At least one posed as a friend of a patient to gain admittance to the hospital. Three Japanese photographers began shooting pictures of every pregnant woman in sight. Said a hospital spokesman: "It seems if you move anything, there is a reporter behind...