Word: mental
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crosley." He was unable to name anyone but his wife who had ever seen them together or anyone who knew Chambers as "Crosley." But he had some angry counter-questions of his own. He wanted the committee to ask Chambers if he had ever been treated for a mental illness. He also dared Chambers to come out from behind the shield of congressional immunity, and make his accusations again, so that Hiss could sue for slander or libel...
...congress, hopefully standing ready to do what it could, formed a World Federation for Mental Health. Its ambitious aim: to gain for mental hygienists a larger role in determining relations between governments. W.F.M.H. will cooperate with such United Nations groups as WHO and UNESCO. Russia was not represented at London, but will be invited to join...
Last week London's Marriage Guidance Clinic presented to the International Congress on Mental Health (see above), a "little Kinsey Report" based on a study of 1,000 married couples. Some of the findings : more than half had "basic sex problems"; one-fourth showed "gross sex ignorance"; only 25 had read a book of sexual instruction; almost one-third of the wives were unsatisfied sexually...
...year and a half ago, Ernest Salisbury was committed to a mental ward in Eloise, Mich. as an alcoholic. He spent days there scribbling musical notations on scraps of paper. When the hospital's music therapists got a look at them, they found that
...pretty murky in spots, and full of borrowings from Tchaikovsky. Said Conductor Valter Poole, "It interested me as psychiatry, not as music." But the audience gave Ernest an ovation. Said he in a bashful curtain speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, I enjoyed the playing of the symphony . . . Have confidence in mental hospitals-it did me good." This week, Ernest Salisbury,25, learned that he would shortly be released from the hospital...