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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Smiths was founded three years ago as the juvenile annex of Borocourt (mental) Hospital, its regular staff was soon plagued with a familiar problem. Ten skilled (and overworked) nurses were unable to get really close to the hospital's 40 seriously disturbed children. Said Borocourt's physician-superintendent, Dr. Gerald O'Gorman: "If we're very lucky, we may get the children to form an attachment to an animal-but what is vitally needed is relationship with a human being...
...baby sister. It was hot paraffin, and the baby died. Lucy's horrified parents eventually drove the "wicked" child into Smiths-and the loving arms of Big Sister Agatha, who has since restored the stunned, mute child to hesitant speech and a chance for recovery. So close have many other children become to their Big Sisters that the hospital's new problem is how to "wean" them from what Dr. O'Gorman calls "such completely undemanding affection...
Except for a handful of late finishers, the college football season ended last week, marked on its tortured course with good balance among top teams, more than the usual number of close, exciting games and a rash of upsets. The season's surprises: the failure of perennially strong Notre Dame and Michigan State to live up to early-season form; the rise of unheralded Louisiana State and the foundling Air Force Academy to the top. At season's close, TIME...
...were downed by strikes-and a third was losing altitude fast. At Eastern Air Lines, 5,383 members of the International Association of Machinists walked out, along with 550 Eastern flight engineers. The Eastern strike and the walkout of machinists at Trans World Airlines (TIME, Dec. 1) shut down close to one-third of the nation's air transport system; 388 planes were grounded, and the 32,000 passengers they normally carry each day had to scramble to find other transportation. To make matters worse, 1,500 members of the Air Line Pilots Association at American Airlines, who were...
...began to take over directorships held by Goldman, Sachs, he learned another lesson. He was on the board of McKesson & Robbins when President F. Donald Coster defrauded the firm of millions, and killed himself. After that, Weinberg kept close tabs on every corporation for which he was a board member, built a reputation as an invaluable addition to any board. In 1946, General Electric had mapped an expansion program of several hundred million dollars, and President Charles E. Wilson was not sure how his board would react. His worries vanished when Weinberg supported the plans with hard facts and figures...