Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clouds hung over Seoul and gusts of bone-chilling rain lashed the streets, drenching the policemen who stood guard with slung carbines outside the Assembly. Inside, the sit-down strike continued. Opposition Assemblymen slept beside their desks. In a seat near the rostrum, tiny Park Soon Chun, the only woman member of the Democratic Party in the Assembly, tiredly wiped her glasses...
...another year, Eleanor Roosevelt was the living woman most admired by the nation, as sounded out by Pollster George Gallup. Runner-ups to Mrs. Roosevelt (a ten-time winner in the poll), this year as well as last, were Queen Elizabeth and Clare Boothe Luce. In fourth place: Mamie Eisenhower, sixth in popularity last year. For the seventh time, the pollees ranked President Eisenhower as the most admired living man, trailed by Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Evangelist Billy Graham and Harry Truman, who slipped from last year's third spot. Newcomers to this year's list...
...name-dropping doctor could have continued in this style for half an hour. For the anatomy and pathology of the female reproductive system are bound up with the names of pioneers who explored their mysteries. Virtually all these pioneers were males, so in any technical account of a woman's intimate life there are many more men than she suspects. The most notable, numbering 101, are the heroes of Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones (Macmillan; $15), by Obstetrician-Gynecologist Harold Speert of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...
...cause of surgical progress were the slaves Anarcha. Betsy and Lucy, on whom the flamboyant South Carolinian James Marion Sims (1813-83) operated repeatedly to perfect a method of closing openings (the result of childbirth injury) between the bladder and vagina-then one of the most distressing complaints that woman was heir to. Dr. Sims is honored with a statue in Manhattan's Central Park, but the slaves are not even named in Dr. Speert's index...
Died. Lion Feuchtwanger, 74, Munich-born novelist (Proud Destiny, Josephus, The Pretender, Jephta and His Daughter, This Is the Hour), anti-Nazi who escaped from a concentration camp dressed as a woman and made his way to the U.S. during World War II; in Los Angeles...