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...TIME, Aug. 4, 1952), which simply lowered blood pressure. About three years ago doctors began to experiment with reserpine. This did double duty for a fair proportion of such patients; it lowered their blood pressure and also-perhaps more important-being a tranquilizer (ataraxic), it reduced their irritability and insomnia. At the Mental Health Institute in Cherokee, Iowa, Dr. Anthony A. Sainz gave reserpine to 89 patients classed simply as senile psychotics. In 62 cases the symptoms disappeared-agitation, apprehension, dependency, depression, quarrelsomeness. Seven cases showed "satisfactory improvement," and in only 20 were the results inadequate. Since then, at Cherokee...
...Deacon Jack" Hurley, otherwise known as the "Conscience of Seattle," is a manager of professional prizefighters who suffers variously, according to his outraged complaint, from ulcers, insomnia, sinusitis, rheumatism and Republicans. Somehow he still manages to practice his furious skill for conning the public into supporting pugilists of wildly assorted talents, e.g., Billy ("The Fargo Express") Petrolic and Harry ("Kid") Matthews. In the current issue of Sport, Deacon Jack Hurley spells out his secrets for survival in a world beset by the dangers of women and other amateurs...
...typical successful TV comic is either Irish or Jewish, earns more money than the President of the U.S., and is likely to suffer from egomania, insomnia and, especially, vertigo-i.e., a morbid fear of falling from his high Nielsen rating. In a new book, The Funny Men (Simon & Schuster; $3-95), published this week, TV Comic Steve Allen, who labors to be funny five nights a week on NBC's Tonight, outlines the terrors of his trade and takes a measuring look at 16 of his competitors. Since he began work on the book...
...that they take subways in the wrong direction or wander aimlessly in front of speeding autos. Many walk home, to settle their seething tempers before facing families. Few can concentrate on any intellectual activity. Reading is difficult. More than half cannot sleep restfully, and 38% suffer from full-scale insomnia. Other effects: depression and thoughts of suicide, hypersensitivity to noise, palpitations, stomach troubles, nightmares, buzzing in the ears...
...Republican victory this year, Lubell thinks it likely that neither party will win a truly decisive majority before 1960 or possibly 1964, because the U.S. electorate is at "almost deadweight evenness." A sizable part of it has "developed what might be described as a strong case of political insomnia, tossing from one party bed to another." What the people want is to stay squarely in the middle, and, perhaps unconsciously, they use each party to check the other...