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...eight months, with Negro Writer William Attaway and Negro Actor Ferman Phillips, Belafonte operated an eatery in Greenwich Village called the Sage. Says Harry: "I did the cooking in the window. All kinds of people flocked in-folk singers, junkies. We gave them hash. If you were lucky, we threw an egg on it." Afterhours, Belafonte and his pals started to organize a folk-singing group. Says Attaway: "We wouldn't even open the door unless we needed somebody. The guy would rap, and we would open up and say: 'O.K., we need a bass, you can come...
...husband and I were recently divorced upon the suggestion of his psychiatrist," wrote Dorothy Ferman (pseudonym of a former newspaperwoman and advertising writer). "Several weeks later my husband voluntarily entered a sanitarium to be treated for depression. I, too, am depressed; I'm also angry. In our lives there was no mother-in-law, no 'other' man or woman. But there was always a psychiatrist...
Oversimplification. Writer Ferman complains that her husband became utterly dependent upon his analyst. As a social-work executive, he said, "to hive had an analysis was as desirable as to hold an advanced academic degree." She had hoped, after their marriage, to supplant the analyst "in a woman's way," but Jim went running from one analyst to another. Eventually, he tried to get Dorothy to go to an analyst. She refused, largely because of the cost, and concluded: "What it might do for me was less important than the fact that it would initiate me into the cult...
Impertinence. The Nation's editors gave "a number of prominent psychiatrists" advance copies of the Ferman article and invited them to reply. Most refused. But from outspoken Psychiatrist-Author Fredric (The Show of Violence) Wertham came outspoken agreement: "What she writes rings true. In fact, I have encountered literally dozens of similar cases . . . Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts are the only physicians who blame the patient-or at least his relatives-when they do not cure...
...then there was the dancing chorus consisting of "Cuddles" Simson, "Babs" Stimmel, "Chick" Ferman, and other equally voluptuous creatures...