Labels:text | human face | man | glasses | person | letter | clothing OCR: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ Spock, Benjamin Benjamin Spock Dr. Benjamin Spock's " The Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care," sold over 30 million copies worldwide and remained in print for over 50 years. Second only to the Bible in popularity, it was first published in 1946 when it revolutionized childcare thinking in the postwar years with the radical proposition that a mother's instincts were just as good as any expert's. Spock, the eldest son of a railway lawyer, studied at Yale, and won a gold medal rowing with the Yale crew in the 1924 Olympics. After college he specialized in pediatrios and psychiatry at Columbia, and wrote his book in the evenings while on war service with the navy. In the 1960s, Spock became involved in the nuclear-disarmament movement. Outraged by Benjamin Spock, pediatrician, the policies of the Soviet Union and the U.S ., author, teacher, and campaigner, he became a spokesperson for the organization SANE and, subsequently, other peace 1903 - groups. Spock disapproved of the "superkid" phenomenon of the 1980s, and spoke out against hot-housing children to turn them into overachievers. CHRONOLOGY
