Word: drexel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...method of treating patients until, in 1940, he described his technique at a professional meeting and saw eyebrows lifting all around. By 1945 he had established himself at the University of Chicago as professor of psychology and set up a counseling center in a drab, three-story house on Drexel Avenue, half a block west of the campus. To the center trooped clients (Rogers avoids the term "patient") of all ages, from all walks of life. It has been going full blast ever since...
...such a climate the center on Drexel Avenue seems an inauspicious setting. Dowdy, poorly maintained and ill-furnished, it enables Rogers to boast: "Anybody can see that most of our money goes on salaries." Each cramped interviewing room contains only a desk and two chairs. The invariable procedure: invite the client to discuss anything at will. This is somewhat like Freudian free association, but with differences on which Rogers lays great stress: no attempt to dredge for harrowing emotional experiences in childhood or to seek cause-and-effect relationships between past experiences and present difficulties...
...management was reduced to making a pregnant woman (a non-buyer, no doubt) give up her seat to him. The crowd had come for the sale of the year-the 46 paintings from the collection of the late Margaret Thompson Biddle, who was the ex-wife of Anthony Drexel Biddle Jr. of Philadelphia...
Born. To Angier Biddle Duke, 41, tobacco heir (Lucky Strike) and president of the International Rescue Committee, onetime (1952-53) U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, and Maria Luisa de Arana, 34, granddaughter of Spain's Marquis de Campo Real: their first son, second child; in Southampton, N.Y. Name: Drexel Dario Biddle. Weight...
Nominated to replace Thomas as the Navy's new civilian helmsman was Under Secretary Thomas S. (for Sovereign) Gates Jr., 50, Philadelphia investment banker (Drexel & Co.) and Main Liner. Lanky (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) Tom Gates, son of a onetime president of the University of Pennsylvania, won two Bronze Star citations as a World War II intelligence officer, left active duty with the rank of commander. Appointed Navy Under Secretary three years ago, he made a name as a quiet, hard-working administrator and top assistant to Secretary Thomas. By boosting Gates to the Secretary...