Word: carlin
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Even the mentally ill feel television's hypnotic spell. Indiana State Prison has already reported that television 1) has a calming effect on its mental-case prisoners, and 2) results in a saving on sedatives. Last week, in rural Amityville, N.Y., Dr. George E. Carlin installed five television sets for his mental patients at Louden-Knickerbocker Hall, a 63-year-old private sanatorium. Said Owner John F. Louden: "We're using TV as a form of occupational therapy, to take the patients' minds off themselves and to let them live nearer to a normal life...
...patients except the "acutely disturbed" will see the nightly programs. As a precaution against extra-critical reactions, the TV screens are covered by non-shatterable Plexiglas and the sets encased in steel "tamperproof" cabinets. Carlin's patients like comedy shows. Western films are banned (gunplay overstimulates), but drama shows are all right if they are not too dramatic. Carlin's only rule: his patients must not see "anything depressing or anything to cause excitement." So far, he reports with satisfaction, most TV programs do not violate this rule...
...remained staunchly Democratic after Congressman Charles Creighton Carlin Sr., of Alexandria, who had worked briefly as a reporter on the Gazette, bought it in 1911 from the Snowden heirs. Now Editor C. C. Carlin Jr., 49, the courtly, conservative son of the late Congressman, runs the Gazette in the same unreconstructed way. He proudly displays the Stars & Bars alongside an autographed photograph of Robert E. Lee in his tiny, cluttered office, just as proudly boasts that the Gazette was the first and northernmost newspaper to raise a rebel yell in the Dixiecrats' cause...
Emmanuel Margolis 1G received chairmanship of the new group. Also elected were Rolf B. Myerson '48, vice-chairman; Jerome E. Carlin '49, secretary; and Lazare Nesin '48, treasurer...
...lineups: Leverett: rf, Warren; lf, Cameron; c, Thorne; rg, Hurley; lg, Eden. Kirkland: rf, Cole; lf, Veegas; c, Carlin; rg, Glynn; lg, Semple...