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More serious critics took issue with the Kinsey method itself, and many of the faults found with the male report also apply to the female. Kinsey's findings are based on small samples which do not represent a fair cross section of the U.S. They are made up of...
The Eager Helpers. Kinsey's real laboratory is the whole U.S. He will go to any amount of trouble to collect case histories from a region, a cultural group, an occupational class or a religious sect which may not be adequately represented in his samples. Stray individuals figure less...
The visitation was a publicity stunt staged by Chicago's Grant Advertising, Inc., which, with 21 offices in 17 lands, bills itself as the world's biggest international ad network (56% of its accounts are foreign).* Last week, at a meeting of its 21 foreign office managers, the...
On the late Boston Transcript, a feature writer, with a fondness for using three words where one would do, once referred to bananas as "elongated yellow fruit." This periphrasis so fascinated Charles W. Morton, now the associate editor of the Atlantic, that he began collecting examples of "Elongated Yellow Fruit...
The first signs of illness that the Senator noted, last April, were pains in his legs. In May he had severe pain in his left hip. Four days of examinations and tests in the Army's Walter Reed General Hospital did not show definitely what was wrong, but by...