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...sexual experiences of growing boys have not had much detached study. But Indiana University's Glenn V. Ramsey has lately made some unusual inquiries. He asked frank questions of 291 middle-class boys in "a Middle Western city," got apparently frank answers. Findings...
...What sorts of stimuli, Psychologist Ramsey wanted to know, have the most erotic effect on boys? Very young boys (under 14) responded most to talk about sex, older boys to seeing a naked girl. Next to these ranked daydreams, obscene pictures, movies, burlesque. Music, jazz or otherwise, was at the bottom of the list. Half of the group reported being aroused (notably between the ages of ten and twelve) by experiences that have no obvious connection with sex, such as seeing a big fire, hearing the national anthem, fast car driving or bicycle riding, reciting in class, watching marching soldiers...
From these findings Psychologist Ramsey drew no moral but, by comparison with studies of "an older generation," he was inclined to think that boys today get (or admit) much more sexual experience than their fathers...
...that one of the offensive steps will aggravate the Jap into sending out his battleships and carriers. They are confident that the Pacific fleet, aided by growing air power, will come out of any showdown victorious. The Jap has declined to risk it. According to Rear Admiral DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, back in Washington last week from commanding a South Pacific carrier task force, the Jap must save his heavy naval units to protect his long lines of communication. With the retaking of Kiska those lines of communication are threatened from the north...
...strength of the South Pacific fleet was the Navy's own and carefully guarded secret. One clue was the quiet confidence of Navy men. Admiral Ramsey said cryptically : "The situation has improved greatly down there in recent months." He also declared: "Their probable available first-line carrier strength may approach ours at this moment," which was a backhanded way of stating that our carrier strength has grown considerably since dark November 1942, when Japan's carrier strength probably exceeded ours...