Word: jorgensen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, Sophomore Keith Jorgensen, suggests a reason: "There is less noise with girls around since you don't want to make yourself look like a fool in front of females...
Power Play. Which indeed the plot resembles. Myra is actually a Myron who has had a Christine Jorgensen-type operation and is passing through Hollywood, trying to rape havoc upon unwary heterosexual males. To Myra, sex involves power play, with more power than play; the book's most harrowing scene is Myra's cruel seduction and humiliating buggery, with an artificial penis, of an all-American male...
When ex-G.I. George Jorgensen went to Denmark and returned, after a series of operations, as "Christine," the U.S. public and medical profession alike were appalled at what seemed to be "mutilative surgery." Attitudes have changed so much since 1952 that last year a Baltimore court ordered Johns Hopkins surgeons to perform an identical operation on a 17-year-old boy. And last week the university announced that it has opened a center for the diagnosis and treatment of transsexuals. Hopkins surgeons have already operated on five men and five women...
...feisty as any elite Viet Cong unit, and twice as bloodthirsty. The ambush of C Company took place on Sept. 28, 1901, on the Philippine island of Samar. The guerrillas were Filipino insurrectos inspired by General Emilio Aguinaldo, tough little "bolomen" whose razor-sharp cane knives and captured Krag-Jorgensen rifles killed 4,165 Americans before the three-year insurrection was quelled. In turn, some 20,000 Filipinos died in the struggle...
...Weekly is the type of tabloid that she had in mind in 1950 when, after serving a stint on Stars and Stripes, she decided to launch a paper that would begin where the semi-official Stars and Stripes left off. By 1953 she was serializing ex-G.I. George Jorgensen's operation (CHRISTINE CASTRATION RAPPED) and the details of Call Girl Pat Ward's journey into prostitution. The USAREUR (U.S. Army in Europe) command removed Overseas Weekly from Stars and Stripes newsstands all over Europe. Owner Rospach responded by flying to Washington, where she fast-talked...