Word: groups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grant gift is the first instance in which funds have specifically provided for scholastic aid to members of the Advanced Management group. The Grant Foundation, established in 1936 by William T. Grant, chairman of the board, of W. T. Grant department stores, had previously set up a scholarship fund at the Business School...
Working briefly on networks and outlying independent stations, Brokenshire was down, then up, then down. In 1943 he joined Alcoholics Anonymous (Forest Hills, N.Y. group) and now feels that he has a better than even chance. Says he thoughtfully: "Sometimes it takes an awful lot of kicking to get a man straightened out." Though he never mentions drinking on the air, he feels that an intense and sympathetic bond has grown between him and his audience. "Somehow, they can sense I've suffered and that I'm sympathetic to other people's suffering," he says...
Switchboard Movement. What Krieg cautiously proposes is a lengthy inquiry into the possibility of building substitute transmission stations, i.e., electrical apparatuses which would be worn, perhaps, on the head, through which controlled and meaningful signals could be sent electrically to the brain of a blinded man. A group of electrical contacts touching the surface of the subject's brain, says Dr. Krieg, might enable him to read. A pattern of such impulses coming through the electrodes of the apparatus might be controlled to appear as words, moving across the blind man's visual consciousness like the letters...
...result, concluded Dr. Leonard W. Parkhurst, the clinic's medical director, many businessmen "need the advice of psychiatrists to convince them that they must ... be boss of their jobs, not slaves to those jobs." In one group of 63 tested at the clinic, 80% needed medical, surgical or psychiatric treatment. The clinic's time-honored prescription: take it easier...
...Alarmed at the number of businessmen who were dying off at the peak of their careers, a Great Neck, N.Y. group last week started a nationwide campaign called "Relax, U.S.A.," to save and lengthen lives. Take time out every so often to recharge the batteries, said the group, by 1) merely drowsing; 2) leisurely puffing on a cigar; 3) looking at the trees and the clouds...