Word: brande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War I Veteran Brand, a onetime shipping clerk who lost his job in the '30s, has been a hospital attendant since 1935. In 1947, after observing for a week at an Illinois state hospital, where the law forbids restraint, he got permission to try the method. In his own ward at the Milwaukee County Asylum, 32 patients had been tied up. He took the restraints off every one. Says he: "The freed patients were like horses that were tied up for years in the barn. Let them go and they run and kick. So I let them. They...
Just Hang On. When Brand began his experiment, he hid the straitjackets to keep other attendants from using them. Now, he says with a grin, he has forgotten where he hid them. There is also less need, he finds, for "chemical restraint" (sedative drugs). When a new patient arrives, often in a straitjacket, Brand has a technique: "I give them a good talking to. 'This is your home,' I tell them. 'It's up to you if you are going to have a new life.' Most of them really understand me. Not one has ever...
With some of his award money, Brand expects to pay off a $200 balance on a new bathroom and get the house painted. The award, he thinks, is a fine thing: "It will make attendants work hard and feel they are getting recognition for their work...
...Girls Go. Bobby Clark injecting his best brand of madness into a routine Broadway musical (TIME...
...Joints, Iced Highballs. Already sold out through June 11, the annual Shakespeare Festival opened last week with Macbeth, starring Godfrey Tearle and Cinemactress Diana Wynyard. Among the season's brand-new productions: John Gielgud's Much Ado About Nothing, Tearle's Othello, Tyrone Guthrie's Henry VIII. By October, the theater management reckons that it will have taken in something close...