Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. William Samuel Paley, 45, board chairman and principal stockholder of the Columbia Broadcasting System; and Barbara Gushing Mortimer, 30, svelte brunette daughter of the late great brain surgeon, Dr. Harvey Gushing; both for the second time; in Manhasset, N.Y. Five days before, he had been divorced in Reno by Dorothy Hart Paley, 38, who reportedly got a $1,500,000 settlement, after 15 years of marriage, two children (adopted...
...took it gallantly. She dabbled in real estate, but that bored her. Then one day she flounced into the hotel suite of Dema ("The Brain") Harshbarger, an ample and astute business woman, founder and manager of the NBC Artists' Bureau, who had gone to California to retire. Said Hedda: "I want to get on that air." "In half an hour," says Dema, "she told me more about Hollywood than I could learn in two years of constant study." Dema decided to become Hedda's manager...
Fear of the Graves. "As for the Polish intellectuals, they are very stubborn, too. There are even leftist Cabinet ministers here who hate Russia. We must somehow make all Poles understand the need for friendship with Russia-even if it is more with the brain than from the heart...
...tried to commit suicide, and was sent to a mental hospital. The hospital treated him, decided that he was sane, and sent him back to jail. Thereupon his lawyer called in a top-ranking Pittsburgh psychiatrist. Dr. Yale David Koskoff, senior neurosurgeon at Montefiore Hospital, suggested a prefrontal lobotomy (brain nerve-cutting) to revamp Wright's "psychopathic personality." That was all right with the prisoner-and with the court...
Last week Millard Wright's brain operation presented the court with a difficult legal question: Is a criminal tendency a disease that surgery can cure? Brought to trial for his burglaries before Judge G. Malcolm McDonald, Wright looked like a new man. He was cheerful, sociable and relaxed. Dr. Koskoff thought there was a good chance that he had been cured of the urge to steal. But to complete the cure, the prisoner would have to be set free and given a chance to live in a "normal" environment...