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Ever since blond, balding Dr. Willard Ellsworth finished his internship, he has been one of the house physicians at Manhattan's 2,200-room, jampacked Hotel Pennsylvania, right across from the Pennsylvania station. Trains leave the station for the doctor's native Missouri, but he and his hillbilly accent stick tight to the hotel. Dr. Ellsworth once tried general practice for six months in Colorado. He did not like it because he had to treat children. They were too much of a novelty after his hotel patients, who are usually in the fat & forty with gallstones class...
Most of Dr. Ellsworth's hotel patients are men. Some are chronic heart or kidney cases, but the majority are drunks. They range from chronic alcoholics with the d.t.s, who have to be nursed back to health over a period of weeks, to women guests with a one-drink hangover. Some of Dr. Ellsworth's drunks are sorrowful, some are noisy and tear up the room, some come to the hotel for regular binges four or five times a year, some are just funny: e.g., one time Dr. Ellsworth, thinking a drunk was out cold, was telephoning...
...weird group of patrons with which all hotels, especially tall ones, are afflicted are the suicides. Dr. Ellsworth thinks he has seen more suicides than any other doctor-in peacetime there were sometimes three or four a week. The suicides rarely used firearms, usually jumped out of windows or took overdoses of sleeping powders. One room clerk is said to have asked registering guests: "Do you want a room to sleep in or to jump from...
...Republican Party, which with blood in its eye has often gone gunning for professors, last week got some clear-eyed professorial advice. The advice came from Ohio Northern University's Dr. Wilfred Ellsworth Binkley, history and political science professor. His new book, American Political Parties: Their Natural History (Knopf, $3.75), told Republicans: if they want to win the 1944 election they must find another Theodore Roosevelt...
Transatlantic's 64-page debut fell short of the prospectus. Author Van Doren's discussion of his Dutch-English ancestry and why he is nonetheless American was more charming than illuminating. Ellsworth Huntington, Yale professor of geography, discussed What Geography Does To America with too much educational zeal and a faint flavor of patronage. Paul Gallico relieved this solemn though unponderous tone with a lightweight piece designed to prove that Americans love baseball because it is their one escape from female domination...