Word: coons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharpest growth in the Service's history has taken place during the past two years, since Dana L. Farnsworth succeeded Arlie V. Bock as head of the University Health Services. During 1953-1954, Gaylord P. Coon, Chief of Psychiatry since 1946 and the only full-time psychiatrist, and other, part-time, psychiatrists saw a little over 500 patients, a decrease from the previous year. In 1954-55, Farnsworth's first year, Coon was still the only full-time man, and the Service saw nearly 600 people. Last year, the staff had been expanded to include four full-time psychiatrists, three...
...increase in staff has brought no relief from the crowding of which Coon annually complained in his reports. Coon's 1955-56 report describes the problem this...
...crowding of the psychiatric facilities places a sharp limit on the intensity of therapy which University psychiatrists undertake. Coon's report said, "Students with deep-seated, persistent neuroses can expect to receive from us with our present facilities little more than a holding action, or, at best, to be tided over crises." He hastened to add, however, "Such chronically disabled students are encouraged to obtain treatment from private psychiatrists or other outside sources such as out-patient psychiatric clinics attached to certain hospitals in the Metropolitan area." Some of these clinics offer care for low fees or, in some cases...
...outbursts, Eastland never descends to the kind of semi-obscene, anti-Negro venom displayed by Mississippi's late Senator James Vardaman when he declared: "I am just as much opposed to Booker T. Washington as a voter as I am to the coconut-headed, chocolate-colored typical little coon who blacks my shoes every morning...
...brothers Louis and Dave started in to make toys themselves. They bought the dies for Zippo and the Coon Jigger after Strauss had gone bankrupt. The monkey and the minstrel had been on the market for more than 20 years, but Marx gave them bright new colors, brought out bigger models, and sold 8,000,000 of each. By the time he was 26, Marx was a millionaire and convinced that, in the toy industry, there is nothing new under the sun. To prove his point, he brought Zippo back this year, redesigned, rechristened (Jocko) and repriced...