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...York and flew the weekly edition to Free China for distribution. Barely a month after V-J day, Gould was back in his old Shanghai shop feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed a story at the last minute, Gould filled the hole with an ad: "Printing done and tango taught at Shanghai Evening Post...
Erin Go Bragh. In Cheltenham, England, the court awarded Dorothy Dix $630, agreed that her hairdresser was negligent when he dyed her hair green...
...mentally ill are no longer hounded as witches, no longer punished as criminals, no longer housed in prisons and poorhouses. They are treated less brutally than they were 100 years ago when Dorothea Lynde Dix began her 40-year crusade to better their lot. But their lot is still a wretched one, and the recovery rate in U.S. mental hospitals is not "appreciably higher" than it was 50 years ago. Albert Deutsch, medicine and social welfare columnist of the New York Star, has made an angry survey of state mental hospitals, The Shame of the States (Harcourt, Brace; $3). Deutsch...
...first seven arrived by bus at Fort Dix, N.J., the Army seemed almost startled by its own Rotarian effusiveness. Cameras flashed, and a lieutenant colonel stepped forward to bid the thunderstruck youths a warm but manly welcome. Then noncoms, who seemed to have gone through some defanging process, took them gently in tow, and ordered them to write letters home...
When the early Church came into contact with the licentiousness of Greco-Roman civilization, it became the staunch advocate of matrimony. The Church even tried to keep Christian marriages from going on the rocks by offering its members advice more detailed than anything Dorothy Dix ever attempted. Saint Chrysostom (347-407) wrote that no wife should say to her husband: " 'Unmanly coward and lazy sluggard, look at that man . . . His wife wears jewels and goes out with a pair of milk-white mules. She is attended by a troop of slaves, but you have cowered down and live...