Word: mason
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Then Dr. Albert Abraham Mason heard of the case. In his studies of psychosomatic conditions, he had taken an interest in hypnosis. Eighteen months ago, in a white-painted hospital room in East Grinstead, Sussex, a dozen skeptical doctors watched as Dr. Mason talked the boy into a hypnotic trance. It took ten minutes. Then Hypnotherapist Mason said again & again: "Your left arm will clear." (He had begun with a particular part of the body to make the test more precise...
...Mason tried again & again, cutting his hypnosis time to three seconds. After he said the right arm would clear, it did. The boy's thighs and legs, which had been most heavily covered, cleared partially. His back was 90% cleared. The boy, now 18 and happier than he had ever expected to be, has learned to hypnotize himself to maintain the improvement. He is working as an electrician's helper...
Skin specialists who read of the case last week in the staid British Medical Journal snorted, did not see how hypnosis could ease a condition which began in the womb. Neither could young (26) Dr. Mason, but he had witnesses to his treatment and the boy's improvement...
Fine felt he needed Grundy support at the polls to beat the Democrats, and went to see G. Mason Owlett, Grundy's deputy. "His big worry," recalls Fine, "was whether I would be punitive against the Grundys. He didn't ask for anything and I didn't offer anything. But I said I had no intention of being punitive...
This article is an up to-date revision of the CRIMSON's first Admissions Report, for which Douglas M. Fouquet '51 and Bayley F. Mason '51 were awarded the 1951 Dana Reed Prize for the best piece of undergraduate writing to appear in a Harvard publication. '55 in a Nutshell Harvard Yale Princeton Dartmouth Number of applicants 3200 3200 3200 3511 Number in class 1150 1169 804 760 Number interviews 2500 2000 2000 3400 Geographical distribution: New England 38.1% 28.6% 27.3% 32.6% Middle Atlantic 28.1 37.8 50.0 43.8 Middle West 16.7 17.2 16.3 14.6 Far West...