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...Died. Armand G. Erpf, 73, Wall Street financier and art patron; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A senior partner in the investment house of Loeb, Rhoades & Co., Erpf was the driving force behind what is now the $183 million Metromedia organization, planned the expansion of Crowell-Collier that ballooned sales from $29 million to $220 million in a decade, made the financial arrangements for the transition of the Sunday supplement from the defunct New York Herald Tribune into New York magazine. Well known as an art patron, his own collection ranged from ancient Chinese snuff bottles to avant-garde...
With these words, a 23-year-old Harvard graduate student told his psychiatrist why he had just bought his third motorcycle, despite having suffered serious injuries in two cycle accidents during the previous six months. Luckily, his psychiatrist was Harvard Medical School's Armand M. Nicholi II, who had been studying and treating college cyclists for years. From the way the young man talked about his machine, Nicholi easily concluded that his patient was the victim of a hitherto unrecognized emotional ailment: the motorcycle syndrome...
...applicant because he has dropped out for psychiatric reasons, the school not only closes the door to a student who has as high a probability of completing his education as any other drop-out but may also be denying entrance to one of the more intellectually gifted," said Dr. Armand M. Nicholi Jr. in a 1970 report to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
Before reading your October 13th article by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi on the "Motorcycle Syndrome," I thought I was a relatively well-adjusted individual. Now I realize that my outwardly confident, competitive behavior is, in fact, a cover-up for deep-seated cyclogical problems...
...Over the past few years I have observed a group of patients manifesting unusual emotional investment in the motorcycle and sharing a number of general characteristics . . . that I have designated the 'motorcycle syndrome,'" explained Dr. Armand M. Nicholi in a report to the American Psychiatric Association last spring...