Word: koskoff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jail, Wright tried to commit suicide, and was sent to a mental hospital. The hospital treated him, decided that he was sane, and sent him back to jail. Thereupon his lawyer called in a top-ranking Pittsburgh psychiatrist. Dr. Yale David Koskoff, senior neurosurgeon at Montefiore Hospital, suggested a prefrontal lobotomy (brain nerve-cutting) to revamp Wright's "psychopathic personality." That was all right with the prisoner-and with the court...
...week Millard Wright's brain operation presented the court with a difficult legal question: Is a criminal tendency a disease that surgery can cure? Brought to trial for his burglaries before Judge G. Malcolm McDonald, Wright looked like a new man. He was cheerful, sociable and relaxed. Dr. Koskoff thought there was a good chance that he had been cured of the urge to steal. But to complete the cure, the prisoner would have to be set free and given a chance to live in a "normal" environment...
STANLEY WAXMAN is going great guns with his Company Charlie baseball league and some real stars have been found. . . . DONALD KOSKOFF gets posies for the longest hit so far . . . and JOHN BERRINGTON the left-handed marlin spike for this pitching a no-hitter...