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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something very like medieval shock treatment to victims of schizophrenia (dementia praecox). Most common form of insanity, schizophrenia packs 200,000 patients in U. S. mental hospitals. Whether social, psychological or physical difficulties cause schizophrenia no one knows. A schizophrenic may believe that he is Napoleon, or that his children are trying to kill him. Or he may fall into rigid positions, lasting for hours. For many schizophrenics there are no more human emotions-only a slow retreat from life into deathlike stupor. Less than 6% are lucky enough to come back to sanity without treatment...
...must to all countries sooner or later, the Nobel Prize for Literature went to Finland. Recipient: Frans Eemil Sillanpää, 51, shaven-headed, potbellied, hard-drinking Finnish widower. When he heard the news, Sillanpää, a government pensioner, sent his seven children through the suburbs of Helsinki shouting: "Father's rich!" To reporters he said, "I'm going to do what Knut Hamsun* did, disappear for two weeks in a bottle." Next day he announced his engagement to his secretary...
...Trust & Savings Bank last July, he had been Kellogg's executive vice president. To the chairmanship retired Will Keith, hoping to devote the rest of his life to his two big hobbies: 1) W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, which he established nine years ago to improve children's health (endowed with $46,000,000); 2) W. K. Kellogg Institute of Animal Husbandry (with 80-odd pure-bred Arabian horses) at Pomona, Calif., which he gave to the University of California in 1932 and endowed with...
...empyema; in Manhattan. A public health authority, a physician by training, he took leave of absence from the presidency of the University of Colorado (1914-19) to direct a civilian war against tuberculosis in France, stayed to guide Red Cross rehabilitation of millions of eastern and central European children...
When unfriendly Indians are egged on by British Tories to burn Lana's cabin, her baby dies at birth. Homeless Gil and Lana go to work for plainspoken, horse-faced Widow McKlennar (Edna May Oliver). There is another Indian raid, and, just as the women and children are being put to the tomahawk, Gil, who has gone for help, returns with the Yankee-Doodling Continental Army...