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This cured me of: sinus, headaches, constipation, insomnia, dizziness, indigestion, nervousness, poor appetite, palsy of the larynx, sore eyes, nervous perspiration, chronic depression and strained human relations, to mention a few of my former disorders. But, during those four years as a psycho, I did as good a job as anyone...
Strength through Joy. In Stockholm, Sweden, prison authorities out to prove the curse of drink staged a football match between the jail's chronic drunkards and its other convicts: the drunkards...
Eight Balls. Dr. Claude Uhler of Dallas spent most of the war attached to an outfit of "eight balls," chronic misfits who had sifted down to the unexacting job of guard at a P.W. camp in the U.S. Thirty percent of them should have been discharged as unfit for any kind of duty, wrote Uhler in the A.M.A. Journal. They were kept in service by the Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase. Results: "More than one-half million misfits carried along for an indefinite period...
...last minute there was a phone call: ailing, 71-year-old Representative May was home in bed with a chronic heart disorder. The Garsson hearings went on, but they gave off only a series of scattered pops...
Ever since blonde, bouncy Martha Rountree sold the program to Mutual last October, it has been a radio headliner. On Meet the Press John L. Lewis threatened his chronic coal scuttle, and Walter Reuther described the General Motors strike the week his U.A.W. hit the street. Because the show has so often made good copy, wire service reporters now cover the broadcasts regularly. To 30-year-old Martha Rountree, radio's most successful woman producer, there is no higher compliment...