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...Torrilhon interprets it, Bruegel's Mad Meg, in which a gaunt witch of a woman, clutching a variety of household objects, strides wildly under a flaming sky amid a hell's choir of monsters, is a painted description of "chronic hallucinatory psychosis due to menopause . . . The painting is full of obscene little monsters, and Meg seems obsessed by genital hallucinations. Two other symptoms are her careless and bizarre dress and her mania for collecting things. It is well known that old women suffering from this type of psychosis have a mania for carrying all their belongings...
...local issues. But last November, after radio station WCMY's Newscaster Ron Wilson reported that trustees of Ottawa's mismanaged municipal hospital had fired a newly hired $12,000-a-year administrator with $8,000 severance pay, Newsman Hames wrote an editorial analyzing the hospital's chronic troubles with the board of trustees, showed it to the front office only after the editorial had been locked up. Reason: Mrs. Edward Kelly, wife of the Republican-Times's general manager, was a member of the hospital board. Two weeks later the entire board resigned under pressure from...
...thinner (by 26 lbs.) Caesar had an off night by the standards of the funniest man in television. Yet even drizzle is welcome in a drought. Into his new half-hour show on ABC, Caesar crammed two sketches: one, too long, cast him and Imogene as a pair of chronic not-marrieds who were flung at each other by well-meaning friends; the other, too short, was a spoof on the current rash of TV shows built around singers on stools. Taking Frank Sinatra as his chief butt, Caesar prattled: "The whole show is live except...
Teachers-white and Negro-at Central Junior lay much of the blame for the classroom combat on a small core of Negro bullies whose methods were soon picked up by other pupils. Other troublemakers: chronic malcontents who have to stay in school under Missouri law until they are 16, and non-pupils who invade the school grounds to stir up trouble...
...tolerate it if they have taken antihistamine or ataractic drugs. It is not that the drugs themselves are dangerous, but that individuals with abnormal sensitivity react dangerously. Steady use of barbiturates is a more predictable peril, says Dr. Meerloo: it makes the midbrain more sensitive to the intoxication of chronic alcoholism, and many alcoholics, far from being put to sleep by barbiturates, become wildly excited after taking them...