Word: landesman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neurotica was a quarterly put out by nonneurotic St. Louis Antique Dealer Jay Irving Landesman, 29. Said he: "Most of my friends are writers and artists and all of them are neurotic as hell. We decided there was a need for a magazine to explore the problems of the neurotic personality." Among the contributions were poems by Kenneth (Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer) Patchen and Conductor Leonard Bernstein (who called his poem Life Is Juicy). The lead article (by Londoner Rudolph Friedmann) began: "Getting married is the best way of taking regular exercise. In order to encourage his libido...
State Representative Leslie B. Cutler and Henry M. Landesman, M.D. '09 both took sharp issue with statements made by Dr. Nels A. Nelson, State Public Health official, in a meeting sponsored by the Student Union Monday night. Before this gathering Dr. Nelson, besides treating social diseases generally, stated that he did not approve of legislation requiring premarital examinations for syphilis...
Besides striking at Dr. Nelson's opinions on pre-marital examinations by quoting from various medical journals, Dr. Landesman, who is a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, attacked his figures which claimed that infection among college students was only 0.2 per cent. "It can readily he seen that the spread of syphilis is very prevalent and far from one infection out of 500. Students do not go to clinics for treatment, and Dr. Nelson never did have any private practice in medicine; his statistics were built on poor premises," according to Dr. Landesman...