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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acting," confided Robert Morley, Co-Author-Star of Edward, My Son, Broadway's latest British import of delectable British corn, "is as easy as selling beer or vacuum cleaners." Being your own playwright, added Actor Morley, really makes the whole thing "quite simple. You write a large part for yourself, as I did . . . and wear the audience down. By the end of the evening they're reconciled...
What Is Psychiatry? What exactly, is this science that all the fuss is about? In one of his three books* published this year (You and Psychiatry, Scribner, $2.50, written in collaboration with Munro Leaf, author of Ferdinand the Bull), Dr. Will has given a textbook definition: "Psychiatry is that branch of clinical medicine that concerns itself with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of personality disorders." Instead of "personality dis orders," some authorities chop off four syllables and call it "mental illness." Despite the claims of some of its enthusiasts, psychiatry does not pretend to be a philosophy, nor take...
...philosopher of the Menninger family is Will's older brother, Dr. Karl, 55, author of The Human Mind, Man Against Himself, Love Against Hate. Dr. Karl makes penetrating generalizations on psychiatry, and teaches other psychiatrists.* The two brothers, philosopher and organizer, work together well, with little evidence of what psychiatrists call "sibling rivalry" (jealousy among brothers & sisters). Dr. Karl and their father, Dr. Charles Frederick ("Dr. C.F."), founded the Menninger Clinic in 1920. Dr. C.F., who started as a horse-&-buggy doctor, got the idea from the Mayos. Now a gentle man of 86, he teaches mineralogy and seashell...
...There is no connection between the Kinsey Distilling Corp. and the W. B. Saunders Publishing Company, the Kinsey Report or its author, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey. Nor are Dr. Kinsey and Mr. J. G. Kinsey, founder of the distillery that bears his name, related...
...Pluribus Unum. No technical innovator, Author Cozzens demonstrates his theme by the popular "Grand Hotel" method of assembling hordes of people, all with singular points of view, in one place-a huge World War II airbase. in Florida. Some of them are elderly, Regular Army officers to whom the mechanics of war are as vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel...