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...William Appleton, assistant professor of Psychiatry, and his wife Jane, a freelance writer, one of the three couples present, discussed self-help methods for saving a marriage from "How Not to Split Up," their recently published best-seller...
Marriages die from neglect, when, after the initial courtship, people "begin to treat their spouses pretty much as they treated their mothers," or "like old shoes that they can dump on," Appleton said...
...George Appleton, who runs the Nashville Banner's Help Desk column, is most concerned about missing persons. He once helped an old Eskimo woman in Alaska trace her son and daughter to Nashville two decades after the mother found herself helpless and separated from her family following an accident that left her a double amputee living on welfare. Not all such stories end happily. One holiday season Appleton successfully traced an aging Nashville woman's long-strayed son to North Carolina, but the son did not want to see his mother. "She took it poorly," Appleton says sadly...
...news organizations have to do this work? Where are the fuzz and the feds when you need them? "I'd never fool with the government," Appleton advises inflamed citizens. "Too slow. By the time they get around to solving a problem, the guy has either solved it himself or died." No exaggeration, that. Here is how the Providence Journal-Bulletin had to answer E.M. of Cranston, R.I., who had complained that the Social Security people were giving him the runaround: "Sadly, we are writing this answer to E.M.'s widow. (See story on Page...
...police beat or the obit desk. Not at all. "I take every letter personally," sighs Manhattan's Fidler. "I can't go to lunch, I can't go home, I can't sleep until I've solved it." Nashville's Appleton has a fat file marked BIG K (for kooks) groaning with the barely legible, highly paranoid ramblings of the city's loneliest losers; he answers their missives with phone calls in hopes that they can better explain themselves viva voce. Says he: "I'm always afraid that somewhere in there...