Word: isabell
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inland sea and a buffer state. The trouble was that Gordon's collecting interests quickly flagged, and whenever they did, his personality turned sour. At such times, he would stay slugabed all day, spitefully jolting the market by dumping or buying, and making life difficult for his wife Isabel...
...psychiatrist was stumped, but Isabel made a suggestion. Perhaps Gordon would enjoy collecting-people? Gordon thought it a marvelous idea, and his agents throughout the world quickly set to work...
...What's On Your Mind? (Tues. 8 p.m., ABC-TV) is one television show that seriously considers the neuroses of troubled people. Twenty of its 30 minutes are given to the filmed story of a mental-health problem; the remaining ten minutes show a panel discussion by Moderator Isabel Leighton and her guests: a psychiatrist and two laymen...
...stripping away some of the witch-doctor illusions about psychiatry, and at blasting psychoanalytic cliches ("Oddly enough, children from happy homes are sometimes the most unfit; they take their parents' happiness for granted and don't learn what hard work goes into it") Blonde, 43-year-old Isabel Leighton, who edited a 1949 bestseller, The Aspirin Age, is an ex-war correspondent and actress who first took up psychiatry as a hobby six years ago. Now a board member of the Menninger Foundation, and the National Association for Mental Health, she aims to keep What...
General Electric Guest House (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS-TV) is an expensive, hour-long blend of variety acts with a charade-type quiz. In the first show, Pianist-MC Oscar Levant was in his usual sour mood, but his trademark insults seemed more neurotic than funny. Among other guests, Isabel Bigley (Guys & Dolls) and Cornelia Otis Skinner gave performances which a panel of "experts" (including Actress Binnie Barnes and Theatrical Producer Herman Levin) managed to identify...