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...advantage over the two hemispheres of the most learned professor's brain in the art of compounding a nutritious fluid for infants." Although eminently sound, Dr. Holmes's medical opinion was ignored by three generations of American women striving for female emancipation. The breast's function as fans et origo of a perfectly balanced natural diet was largely ignored. Now there are signs that highly educated and sophisticated American women are moving back to breast feeding as the best thing not only for their babies' physical and mental health but for their...
...forefront of the back-to-the-breast movement is La Leche League International, founded in a Chicago suburb twelve years ago after two young mothers who wanted to nurse their babies ran into difficulties. Says Mrs. Clement Tompson, wife of a research engineer: "I had a different doctor for each of my first three children, and when I ran into difficulties with breast feeding, the doctors' only answer was 'Put the baby on the bottle.' " For Mrs. Gregory White, the problem had a more piquant quality. Her husband was a physician, but he could give...
...must be completely new." The quest for youth and beauty is the female way of whiling away time and money slimming expeditions to Main Chance or the Greenhouse, animal-cell injections by Niehans in Switzerland, face liftings by Rees or Converse in New York, and assorted blood aerations, breast shapings, or skin peelings. These cosmetic Sayings leave a woman pretty unsightly for a week or so. So Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post (you know, Post Toasties) Close Hutton Davies May solves the problem by inviting her doctor and three of her friends down to Palm Beach for a peeling, so they...
...with considerable tenderness, and over the years Wesselmann has tended to move even closer to his subject. Early paintings depict her in full. Later (often shaped) canvases zero in on specific portions of the anatomy: feet that rise like mountains above the seashore, mouths dragging at enormous cigarettes, huge breast. Yet, explicit though the images are, Wesselmann's nudes are not pornographic. They are too remote for that, too glazed, too impersonal. They could be legendary divorcees, airline stewardesses or Candys who spend all lay on the beach and all night in a motel room. It is hard...
...hopes that the talk about violence and American character is the start of a period of national introspection but fears that it is mere breast-beating, soothing us in a painful moment of national self-recognition and easing the transition to normalcy, where the National Rifle Association has more to say than the overwhelming majority of Americans about our gun laws...