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Dick Karb led the scoring with sixteen markers, and Andy Crichton, Saul Marlas, and Joe Brogatti each contributed ten points to the victor's total. Bob Cross and John Steppacher completed the team which captured its first organized contest...
Noted Psychiatrist Hugh Crichton-Miller did not consider this man a coward but a victim of anxiety neurosis. In the British Lancet last week he reported that the man had a father who beat his wife & children. (Said the patient: " 'e took a great 'obby in knockin' mother about.") In World War I, the patient had a chance to "retaliate" against his savage father by shooting at Germans. But in an air raid he is helpless, there is no one he can attack. Other troubles helped to break down his morale: 1) his wife; 2) infected teeth...
Physicians treating victims of air-raid neuroses, warned Dr. Crichton-Miller, must examine every detail of their patients' lives and bodies. Examples...
...force of a bomb exploding may exert suction or compression on the abdomen, violently displacing fluid in the brain, sometimes ruptures tiny cerebral blood vessels. The nervous system undergoes an enormous shock, and psychological storms follow, even though the patients may be unscratched. Such mental upsets, said Dr. Crichton-Miller, have "no intrinsic connection with . . . morale, courage, discipline, or any other ethical virtue...
...Communists could count among their allies such names as Granville Hicks, Newton Arvin, Waldo Frank, Lewis Mumford, Matthew Josephson, Kyle Crichton (Robert Forsythe), Malcolm Cowley, Donald Ogden Stewart, Erskine Caldwell, Dorothy Parker, Archibald MacLeish, Lillian Hellman, Dashiell Hammett, John Steinbeck, George Soule, many another...