Word: mental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News, Newsman Ruppel graduated with a bang to the Chicago Times in 1935 as managing editor. He brought along a flair for big pictures and blatant headlines. When Edward VIII abdicated, Ruppel proclaimed LONG LOVE THE KING! He sent a reporter to an Illinois mental hospital as a patient, bannered the inside story SEVEN DAYS IN THE MADHOUSE. After a blizzard: SNOW, SNOW, A THOUSAND TIMES SNOW. In four noisy, readable years under Ruppel, Times circulation doubled...
...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...
...Society is an organization devoted to telepathy, which is the process of sending thought messages from one person to another, and with clairvoyance, which is one person's mental awareness of certain physical occurrances around...
Hollywood used to shy away from heavy "messages" and social consciousness, but last week the moviemakers were feverishly racing one another to make problem pictures. Emboldened by last season's success at denouncing anti-Semitism (Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement) and examining mental illness (The Snake Pit), Hollywood was tackling a new and difficult subject: the Negro problem. Apparently no one was much worried about how it would do at the box office; the only question was which company would get its picture out first...
...Snake Pit. A harrowing adaptation of the bestselling novel, with Olivia de Havilland as the mental patient (TIME...