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...most people, the very word "hospital" has emotionally disturbing overtones, and by the time they are admitted as patients they have symptoms that have nothing to do with their medical or surgical problems. So writes Psychologist Ernest Dichter in The Modern Hospital. His main conclusions after a nationwide survey...
...Harry Dichter is a waiter at Philadelphia's Ambassador Vegetarian and Dairy Restaurant (pickled herring, lox salad, borsch, carp). The customers know that he is fast, polite and can instantly memorize a complicated order without making a mishmash out of it. What many do not know is that Harry, at 53, is also a man of music. He is one of the top collectors and publishers of American music in the U.S., although, as he admits, "I can't read or play a note...
...Browser. Dichter was born in Russia and moved with his family to the U.S. when he was eight. When he finished grade school he went immediately to work, but he kept a taste for books. Browsing in secondhand shops, Dichter learned that there was money in rare editions. While other waiters took their money to bookies. Harry diligently invested in books. For a while he operated his own shop by day. waited on tables by night. He became interested in American music, read all he could find on the subject...
...Dichter compiled an impressive catalogue of old American sheet music, began selling it to collectors. Then he decided that reprints of the sheet music would find a greater audience. His first big publication was an edition of delicate melodies titled Seven Songs for the Harpsichord, by Musician:Politico Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, had sent his work to George Washington, received a polite acknowledgement from the President: ". . . what alas! can I do to support it? I can neither sing one of the songs nor raise a note on any instrument to convince...
...town meeting or a circus? Some observers thought they were seeing an awakened and outraged citizenry. But in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Columnist Ollie Crawford argued: "The Romans were right-there's no show like watching people thrown to the lions. " Manhattan radio station WNEW hired Psychologist Ernest Dichter to explain it all. He concluded that the hearings were supersoap opera: "The pure and wonderful hero was Kefauver, the 'Just Plain Bill' was righteous, moralistic Senator Tobey . . . As a psychologist, I wonder if it was a desire to feel superior that so fascinated the millions...