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...their children can scarcely imagine. In Sun City, as well as in other places across the nation, elderly people in growing numbers are having emotionally close, long-term affairs. Young people prefer to think of their parents and grandparents as old moralists, says Unitarian Minister Richard Boeke of St. Petersburg. In fact, he asserts, many of the aged are still looking for sex and romance...
...contributors have ties to the carnival or circus worlds: Sociologist Marcello Truzzi of New College in Sarasota, Fla., whose father was the juggler Massimiliano Truzzi; Sociologist Patrick Easto of Eastern Michigan University, whose mother was a carnival stripper; and Social Psychologist Theodore Dembroski of Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, who was born into a carnival family and takes a job as a carnival worker, or "carnie," every summer...
...Russian origins, Salome was educated at home in Saint Petersburg and at the University of Zurich. In the course of her many travels she became a friend of Nietzsche, a companion, guide and confessor to Rilke (it was she who first introduced him to Russia), and a favorite pupil of Freud. She knew Wedekind, Hofmannsthal, Schnitzler, and Hauptman. She met Stringberg and the great stage director Max Reinhardt, and Martin Buber encouraged her writing...
Died. Murat Bernard ("Chic") Young, 72, creator of Dagwood and Blondie, the cartoon couple whose exploits are still followed by some 75 million newspaper readers around the world; of a lung embolism; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Young's original 1930 comic strip portrayed Dagwood Bumstead as the well-heeled playboy son of an industrialist and Blondie Boopadoop as a money-hungry, man-chasing flapper. The characters had little appeal for Depression audiences, so Young married the two in 1933, eventually gave them a son and daughter and all the trappings of middle-class life. Dagwood evolved into the harried...
Immunology has even provided hope to victims of leprosy, one of man's oldest and most dreaded diseases. Last month, Dr. Soo Duk Lim of Seoul National University, Korea, told an international workshop on immunodeficiency diseases at St. Petersburg, Fla., that he has used immunotherapy successfully on 14 patients with lepromatous leprosy, the most severe form of the disease. Lim, who worked closely with Good's Minnesota group, infused the patients with large doses of white cells from unmatched donors weekly for periods of up to 16 weeks, in an attempt to stimulate an immune response against the bacillus responsible...