Word: avon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graham, was hauled into Hendon Police Court on a drunken-driving charge. She proved that her physician was having her take a tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours to steady her nerves against the Blitz, notwithstanding was fined $80. One Alfred Jack Perry, 34, was arraigned at Stratford-on-Avon for walking past a time bomb against police orders. "This was sheer obstinacy!" boomed the mag istrate, fined Jack...
During the past twelve years, Psychiatrist Neil Avon Dayton of Boston's Tufts College, with a grant of $140,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, has run these questions down. With 24 social workers, he dug into the records of 89,000 mental patients who had passed through Massachusetts hospital doors in the turbulent years 1917-33. Last week he published New Facts on Mental Disorders (C. C. Thomas; $4.50), a statistical treatise on insanity in the U. S. His facts were startling, his conclusions encouraging. No groaner, Dr. Dayton believes that "the great mass of the population possesses...