The gamecock. (Columbia, S.C.) 1908-2006, February 16, 1976, Page Page 6, Image 7
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By Carl Strange
"A great se
started Dec. 1,
Christine Jorg
audience Thur
Carolina Coliseu
44I didn't start
was just standi;
corner with egg o
happened."
Jorgensen was
New York Daily
appeared 23 yea
was ending thre<
ment that transfc
man to a woman
Headlined "I
Blonde Beauty,"
had been sold to I
by an acquaintam
ended her hopes
Jorgensen, i
Thursday was t
series of four to
the USC Studei
Association Sp<
described her
transformation
confusing.
"All through m
with the fern
childhood," she s
George Jorgen
former identity, e
at the end of Worl
assigned to Fort
At her Ai
examination, she
this strange, ne
asked me, 'Do y
said 'Yes,' but I <
apple pie, too, an<
sleep with either.
On her release f
1946 Jorgensen tri
a cameraman
! i
1
i W
: t
h
b;
a
istine c
Studios. She h
photography j
xual revolution "I lived on
1952," transexual Paramount Gj
iensen told an I didn't get th
sday night at through those
m. 1946, but in \9i
it," she said. "1 those gates, ai
ng on the street
>n my face when it In 1969 Pari
"The Christine
? referring to a Jorgensen h
News story that researchers ir
rs ago when she Penm?nting i
s years of treat- V ?
irmed her from a ^ 1
' "When \
Sx-GI Becomes Copenhagen,
the story, which told me rese
the paper for $300 there in Denn
ce of Jorgensen's,
for privacy. Within a ft
whose lecture arr'va'm CoP
he second in a had beSu" '
be sponsored by Proc,ess of se>
nt Government P?ct?rs ??
makers Bureau, f?rma"?n frol
life before the ples' adm'nls
as lonely and ?',eS and ln
first surgery.
y life I identified By late 1952,
ale, even in Daily News
a?d. Jorgensen's t
isen, Christine's nearl>' comP!e
ntered the Army
d War II and was "I was in th
Uix, N.J. coming out o
'my physical about it (the st
said, there was she said.
urotic man who Stories abou
ou like girls?' I
iidn't say I liked
ri ? zii/inU _ i i America s
i I didn t want to magazines j
Publisher maj
rom the Army in had received
ed to get a job as space than an
for Paramount the history of
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&
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s/ew Shipments Just Arrived
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prv-snruiw diitim ban
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bottoms just the way
you Kko 'on*.
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wMi &Mfc?ff to
vmmmmeji - aililt 49 vo 3V
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and
(ITCHES BRI
OPEN FRIDAYS TIL 9 t.
MHOt LADY AND ASSKMiLl
dtes sex
ad been a student of "What sh<
?ince childhood. public in 1
e block down from Jorgensen,"
ates," she said, "but revolutionary
le job. I couldn't go no 100 per c?
Paramount Gates in cent females
\J%> A IIIUUV infill u^cil ",MI iwri 1
id I drove through." !
imount was filming |
? Jorgensen Story." |
leard in 1950 that '
1 Sweden were exivith
genetic trans- j
e sailed for Sweden
never arrived. !
ve stopped in j
I met a cousin who j
arch was going on
ew months of her
enhagen, Jorgensen j
he long, uncertain
tual transformation.
itored genetic inm
daily urine sam- Hkjj
itered female hor1951,
performed the
when the New York
?' story broke, j
ransformation was !
te. 1
e hospital with tiibes
f me when I heard
ory). I was furious,"
t Jorgensen began to
the pages of
newspapers and Jorsensei
n 1959 Editor and
gazine estimated she
I more newspaper r""""""""""""
y other individual in
journalism. ^
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You tan di
People who
different edu
people from
developed hv
them at leas
prehension
Think for
. slowest ? no1
. read an cut u
. skip or skim.
I I hey let the i
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s I
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r st. ^
MMMMtva
ehangi
jcked the American A sens
952 was not Chris said, helf
she said, "but the difficult
/ idea that there are justment
;nt males nor 100 per "Half tl
?, that each sex has out werei
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i Speaks
a si // / *>. r^" ** *<: jut
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r> it. too So far almost 1,00(1.000 people havi
have different johs. different lQs. different i
ications have completed the course. Our gradt
all walks of life. These people have all taken
Evelyn Wood, a prominent educator Practic;
t tripled their reading speed with equal or he
Most have increased it even more
a moment what that means. All of them
w read an average novel in less than two hoi
e issue of Time or Newsweek in 3.r> minutes T
They read every word. They use no machines
naterial they're reading determine how fast tl
-SCHEDULE OF FF
You'll Incrpa
50 to 1
Today, Tome
4 P.l
Sheratc
across the str
Corncr of A
EVELYN WOI
e reactio
;e of humor, Jorgensen said. "Twen
>ed her through the most puritanical si
years of social ad- to conform.'
Concludin
he people who pointed me Jorgensen fi<
n't pointing at me but at questions fro
c in themselves," she wanted to ki
M she functions
she s
engaged and
frustrated b;
children, ex(
have adopte
One stude
| trouble jusl
j spiritually.
- never felt a
I religions hav
is no( in th(
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Jm pointed to hi
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I A\'\l^> In Living Blood, Y
I
r done it And mark this well: they actually und
nterests, more, and enjoy more than when they r
tales are They understand more They remember
a course You can do the same thing? the place to I
illy all ot tree speed reading lesson.
Iter com- . ,,
1 Ins is t he same course I resident Kennt
Staff take The same one Senators and C
even the
irs They Come to a free Speed Heading Lesson ;i
hey don't you and you will leave with a better undei
Instead. Plan to attend a tree Speed Reading l.essi
lev read possible to read U-4-f> times faster, with
(EE SPEED READING -LESSON!
so your reading speed
00% on Ihespot!
rrow, W Wednesday
if u n m
r?.? ui \y jr ?iyi?
?n Columbia Inn
eet from the Coliseui
ssembly &P Blossom
QD READING DYNAMICS
ns
ty-five years ago our
Dciety wanted all of us
>
g her lecture,
elded a wide range of
m the audience. Many
now how "normally"
> as a woman.
vjoy romances with
;aid. "I've been twice
I twice deeply in love,
at the same time."
she had never been
y her inability to bear
Dlaining that she could
d had she wanted to.
rt asked if she had
tifying her situation
She replied, "I've
religious conflict. All
'e their value, but God
3 image in which we
. God is up here." She
er head.
1 is continuing her
, which she began in
le publication of her
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dihle
IDUATES CAN READ
UINIITFS
Pages Come Across
han The Movie.
ou Might Say. j
erstand more, remember
cad slowly. That's ri?ht!
more. They enjoy more
earn more ahout it is at a
?dy had his Joint Chiefs of
'ongressmeri have taken
ind find out It is free to
rstandinK of why it works
in and learn that it is
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