Early Life
Originally from New Britain, Connecticut, Downey graduated from The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) and in 1951 Yale University.
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“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
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