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...years ago, Betsey Barton was having the kind of good time only American girls of her background can have. She was 16, pretty, athletic, and the daughter of a rich father, famed Advertising Man Bruce Barton. She rode horseback, danced, played tennis, toured the world. Then she broke her back in an automobile accident. In spite of all that surgery could do, her legs remained paralyzed...
This week, in And Now to Live Again (D. Appleton-Century, $1.75), Betsey Barton describes how a badly maimed person feels after the first shock of injury has passed, how such a person can make the agonizingly slow mental adjustment, sometimes more difficult than that of people deformed at birth. She hopes that her book will help teach the families of wounded men what to expect, what...
Slow Beginning. Betsey Barton lay in bed for a year doing nothing, growing feebler & feebler. Recently she has visited people "who sit in back bedrooms . . . because rescue work was not brought to them...." Rescue, she says, should begin the minute danger is over, or there will be a "serious psychic lesion which may result in total paralysis of the will." The trick is "never give food that is too strong for the weak-tea capacity," never assign a task at which the injured may fail-they may give up altogether. The Army's new rehabilitation program with its graduated...
...possible, even though it means entering a "new and terrifying world." She also feels that he should get no coddling, should learn to do things for himself, even when it seems harsh to make him do them. The best kind of help, she found, is from someone similarly injured. Betsey Barton made this discovery at Manhattan's unique Institute for the Crippled and Disabled.* There she found an organization with many disabled people on its staff, using many kinds of special training methods. For example, there are replicas of bus steps, curbs placed just the width of a city...
...when Jimmy Roosevelt was courting his since divorced wife, Betsey Cushing, Ruby Newman played The Man I Love so many times that it became the inevitable theme song when he played at their wedding reception...