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...books* published this year (You and Psychiatry, Scribner, $2.50, written in collaboration with Munro Leaf, author of Ferdinand the Bull), Dr. Will has given a textbook definition: "Psychiatry is that branch of clinical medicine that concerns itself with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of personality disorders." Instead of "personality dis orders," some authorities chop off four syllables and call it "mental illness." Despite the claims of some of its enthusiasts, psychiatry does not pretend to be a philosophy, nor take the place of religion. It tries to prevent mental illness and to "minister to a mind diseased." It is essentially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Are You Always Worrying? | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

This latter race, in all probability, will see Navy and Penn, (both out for revenge), Princeton, (whose 12-inch defeat hardly relegates it to a second-class naval power), Yale, and Syracuse (which lost to Cornell by about the same dis- tance as did Harvard), all in contention against the Crimson...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Ten Crews Battle For Sprint Crown | 5/14/1948 | See Source »

Hattie's scripts are written in English, but she dishes them out in purest pidgin. Sample: ''Dis program we make fo' any kind people who like sing, kani kani pila [music], talk-story. Baby can try, school chiren can try and even if you makule [old] still okay. No need be sham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hula Queen | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Ulcers (gastric and duodenal) are pop ularly supposed to be an occupational dis ease of business executives, doctors, cab drivers, newsmen and other highstrung victims of a jittery civilization (TIME, Aug. 26, 1946). Doctors have noted that stomach ulcers are four times as common among men (who claim that they bear most of the strain of modern dog-eat-dog living) as among women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No Escape | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...figures he can make a trade, a strictly no cash deal, before the season opens. Dis C1878 guy sez Yale gotta football player name a Wayne Johnson a couple a years ago from Harvard. Maybe he wants a trade a scholar, one of them chemistry fellas fer instance, fer a new fullback...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will Swap Mattress for Bunk At Yale, Wellesley, Wothavu | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

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