Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sacha Guitry, unctuous, prolific Parisian Noel Coward, jailed for suspected collaboration, was given his "provisional freedom." Reason: lack of evidence. In jail, 59-year-old, bon vivant Guitry held a daily salon, accepted flowers, pillows, black-market chocolate, U.S. cigarets from admirers. Upon his release, he entered a clinic to calm his nerves, rebuild his appetite. Said a sour acquaintance: "There's nothing wrong with dear Sacha that flattery won't cure...
...Colonel William Claire Menninger, famed psychiatrist (not to be confused with his brother, Karl Augustus Menninger, still holding the fort at the brothers' Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans.), warned Army doctors never to lose patience with soldiers with imaginary ills-most of them need psychiatric care. An Army doctor who says "The bastard isn't going to get away with that" may be merely venting his own resentment at the deprivations he suffers from being in military service. Doctors, Colonel Menninger pointed out, make more financial sacrifice on joining up than any other group...
...before his death he endured the constant pain, intermittent surgery and increasing speech impairment which were the results of cancer of the mouth. When the Nazis invaded Austria, they allowed Freud to leave the country, but not until they had seized his psychoanalytical publishing house, "the institute, and the Clinic, lock, stock and barrel...
...committee is sponsored by the Yale Plan for Alcohol Studies (TIME, May 31, 1943), the outstanding U.S. center in the field. Last winter Yale established the first free clinics in the U.S. for inebriates, in New Haven and Hartford, which have already had amazing success: 84% of those treated are now on their feet (there have been temporary relapses). Chief Yale methods: careful diagnosis to determine the needs of each case, followed, as needed, by psychiatric treatment, sanatorium care, contacts with Alcoholics Anonymous or the Salvation Army, social service to solve home problems, job finding, repeated reports back...
Both candidates would soon hear from Democratic Governor John Moses, now slowly recovering from an abdominal operation at Mayo Clinic. Tall, Norwegian-born John Moses, who is popular enough to have won three terms in the State House in a nominally Republican state, hopes the G.O.P. split is just what he needs to slide him into the Senate...