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...imperious walking stick, his haughty, traffic-stopping marches across Harvard Square, his pearl-grey suits and wing collars, his snowy beard (which he kept so, according to legend, by dippings in laundry bluing). One day (also according to legend) he presented himself, magnificently dressed and bearded, at a Beacon Hill mansion for tea. The girl who opened the door exclaimed: "Jesus Christ." "Not at all," snapped Kitty, "I am George Lyman Kittredge...
That is the way Dr. Jacob L. Moreno describes the life at his Psychodramatic Institute in Beacon, N.Y. Psychodrama is Dr. Moreno's method for treating mental ills-a sort of theatrical psychoanalysis which he uses for troubled mortals, as well as for Hitlers and Hamlets. Instead of lying on a couch and confiding their woes to a psychoanalyst, patients act out their problems, impromptu, on a bare little stage. Many a patient who is hostile or shy refuses at first to take part, suddenly blurts out his hidden neurosis...
...financial center-have been converted into small apartments or torn down to make room for shops. The church today has 1,200 members, but it spends only $34,000 a year on upkeep and good works. Said Dr. Fifield last week of his new parish: "It should be the beacon for all our churches in America. At present...
...Free Press did not promise to support the President "in the mawkish sense of the sloganeer who mouths meaninglessly 'Stand by the President.' " Wrote Publisher Knight-also publisher of the Akron Beacon-Journal (Independent) and the Miami Herald (Democratic): "From time to time the Free Press proposes to speak quite as vigorously about the shortcomings in our national defense policies as does Lord Beaverbrook in his London Daily Express. This is no time to use a feather duster when a club may be needed...
...October, was held up until the following April because actors and technicians had suddenly become unavailable. There was a shortage of lumber for sets. Dunkirk over with, half the picture was in cans when the bombing of London began. Then the Nazis turned the Denham studio into a beacon-the point where their bombers swung toward London after crossing the Channel...