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With seeming good reason, the New England train conductor worried about his heart. For ten years he had lived with a diagnosis of coronary artery disease, "confirmed" by several doctors. He was retired and lived on workmen's compensation. But the diagnosis was deceptive. The conductor happened to be one of an unknown number of Americans who so fear heart trouble that they feel the symptoms without ever having the disease. In fact, the conductor's "illness" meant so much to him that he lived for nothing else. When doctors later could find no heart disease...
...Cardiac neurosis" is more widespread than laymen-or many doctors-realize. In the A.M.A. Journal three specialists report on a six-year study of 27 New England patients (including the conductor). All complained of chronic chest pains; all were exhaustively studied and found free of physical heart disease. To most of them, neurotics at heart, this was not really news; they had already had this word from several doctors. Such unsatisfactory verdicts sent them to still other doctors until they got the grave diagnoses they wanted...
...final touch Heineman tossed out the ticket-punching system that has become a symbol of the commuter. So many commuters were slipping past the conductor because he was too busy to punch their tickets on crowded trains that the North Western was done out of $580,000 yearly. Commuters will now carry "flash" tickets, which clip to the back of the seat, are color-coded so the conductor can tell at a glance where each rider must...
Young People's Concerts (CBS, 12-1 p.m.). Conductor Leonard Bernstein, undisputed champion of the music-appreciation game, leads the New York Philharmonic through snatches of Mozart, Beethoven, Sibelius, Gershwin, explaining all the while the musical chromosomes at work when a symphony is in the fetal stage...
...Polish surgeon in the Austrian army. Holder of a doctorate in law from the University of Vienna, he preferred music, came to the U.S. in 1925 on the invitation of Leopold Stokowski. His talent for developing orchestras, which even exceeded his art as a conductor, brought prestigious results in Los Angeles, Cleveland and New York, where Rodzinski took over the listless Philharmonic in 1943. Considering himself hamstrung by management, he stormily quit the nation's top orchestral job four years later, went to Chicago, where, after a year of feuds with management, he was fired. Freelance since then, Rodzinski...