Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...father of psychosurgery in the U.S., Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman bears a heavy burden of responsibility, both medical and moral. With Dr. James Watts, he introduced the drastic operation of lobotomy (cutting nerve connections in the forebrain) to relieve unbearable pain and the severest mental disorders. Now, in the A.M.A. Journal, 16 years and 2,000 lobotomies later, bearded Surgeon Freeman takes a long, hard look backward over the hazards, successes and failures of lobotomy, and notes a sharp distinction between old and new techniques...
That did it. The old lions of the movie industry-Nick and Joe Schenck, the Skourases, the Warners, the Cohns, Freeman and Zukor-came roaring out of their dens, heads up, alertly sniffing the trade winds...
...school as a first order of business. But they never could bring themselves to close one down. In the last 30 years, thousands of farm families have moved to the cities, but the folks who stayed behind still stubbornly refuse to give up their schools. Last week State Superintendent Freeman B. Decker announced the result: the number of farm kids has dropped 50%, the number of rural schools only 5%. Of the 6,400 rural school districts left, 2,106 have ten pupils or less. And 200 schools have no pupils...
Columnists were busy making a match between Bing Crosby, 48, and blonde, Cinemactress Mono (Dear Wife) Freeman, 26, first introduced to Hollywood by Producer Howard Hughes, who discovered her working as a model in Manhattan. Louella Parsons noted that Mona's mother "is taking shots and getting her passports so she can accompany Mona to Europe. There's a possible picture deal, and, of course, Bing Crosby," who sailed last week on the Queen Elisabeth. Broadway's Danton Walker reported that friends predicted a wedding "at St. Moritz, Switzerland, in December...
Pitching victims were Stan McWilliams Herschell Freeman, and Goerge Uhaze...