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The Qs. The family on which Dr. Richardson reports in most detail included Martin Q, fortyish, "a little man with a pinched expression and a furtive look" who averaged under $20 a week from WPA or Home Relief, his plump, aggressive, somewhat stupid wife, their daughters Agnes, 19, and Catherine...
When Dr. Richardson got to know them, Catherine had come to the New York Hospital clinic for a heart murmur. He later found that Mrs. Q was bothered by a gastric ulcer, that Mr. Q habitually vomited sometimes 20 times a night, that Agnes had a well-developed case of...
Mother Knows Worst. Investigation soon revealed that Mrs. Q was the dominant character and the root of the family troubles. She used her ulcer and her bad teeth to help maintain her rule. One of her favorite subjects was an older daughter, Laura, who had died at eight of a...
Instead of starting with Catherine's heart trouble, treatment began with Agnes' neurosis, went on from there to the parents' teeth and efforts to get Mr. Q to understand his vomiting and to get Mrs. Q to a birth-control clinic. (She never went.)
Yankee from Olympus, by Catherine Drinker Bowen, a biography of Chief Justice Holmes, remained on the list of popular books all year by virtue of the wisdom, the knowledge of law, the humor and the span of American history embodied in its hero.