Milestones, Feb. 22, 1971

Married. Mrs. Virginia Johnson, 46, and Dr. William H. Masters, 55. sex researchers and co-authors of the 1966 bestseller Human Sexual Response and its 1970 sequel. Human Sexual Inadequacy; both for the second time (he was divorced by his first wife last August); on Jan. 7, in Fayetteville, Ark. Masters and Johnson published their findings after eleven years of study of sexual responses of 700 people; their second book applied the results of their work to helping 500 other couples and, in one case, provoked a $750,000 damage suit by a man who accused...

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