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Last week bigwig psychiatrists from across the U.S. converged on Ann Arbor to help dedicate a monument to the proposition that more can and must be done for such children: the Children's Psychiatric Unit at the University of Michigan Hospital. Though the six-story, yellow brick building was barely finished, 30-odd children from the ages of six to twelve had been moved in. The unit's capacity: 75. That is sizable for a children's mental hospital, though many thousands of children in the U.S. need psychiatric hospital care...
Like many a latter-day political bigwig, Julius Caesar prepared for greater things to come by serving as a highway commissioner. His job was to take care of the Appian Way, the great road that stretched from Rome to Brindisi on Italy's southern coast. Laid out in 312 B.C. and already famed in Caesar's day, the Via Appia became known, in the centuries that followed, as the Queen of Roads. Many a victorious Roman legion marched homeward in triumph along its stone paving and over its skillfully engineered bridges. Wealthy Romans built their most sumptuous villas...
...G.O.P.'s Lincoln Day box supper in the capital, where some 7,000 bigwig Republicans dealt with fried chicken (tickets: $1.50 each), Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson, in a frolicsome mood, fed his wife Jessie a tasty morsel without benefit of silverware...
After writing these words, the editors of the University of Georgia's undergraduate weekly, the Red and Black, calmly put their paper to bed and went on to other things. They had apparently forgotten about the university's powerful regent, Roy V. Harris, political bigwig of Georgia. Last week, in his own paper, the Augusta Courier, Harris himself reported how a good Georgia regent reacts...
...annual harness race. Other stockholders included J. Russel Sprague, G.O.P. national committeeman, boss of Long Island's Nassau County and close friend of Governor Dewey; Dr. Richard Hoffman, best known as Frank Costello's psychiatrist; and Mrs. Jeanne Weiss, daughter of the late Democratic bigwig, Irwin Steingut...