Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...press and became Collier's staff-eating, "off-with-their-heads" editor (1949-52); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in New York City. As managing editor of the Chicago Times (1935-38), Ruppel doubled its circulation by such tricks as having one of his reporters committed to a state mental hospital to get a series of Page One stories, disguising his photographers as clergymen, using siren-screeching ambulances to deliver World Series photographs. After wartime service as a U.S. Marines officer, he went to Hearst's Chicago Herald-American as executive editor (1945), moved on to Coltier...
...press, which abounds in advice to readers on their physical, mental and marital symptoms, spurned their dental troubles until 1956 when a young (32), crew-cut Cincinnati dentist named Peter Garvin decided to fill the cavity. Three months after its first appearance in Columbus' Ohio State Journal (circ. 80,834), Dentist Garvin's column (title: "Your Teeth") was picked up by General Features Corp. and offered to newspapers across...
...mother had long shared her son's dubious traveled life, but when she had a slight stroke, he took a young girl cousin on his final, fatal trip. The cousin's appalling story of his death has caused the mother to have the girl put in a mental institution; now she is using her money as a club on relatives and doctor alike. Instead, the skeptical doctor (Robert Lansing) gives the girl an injection of a truth drug, and out of her pours a story ending with the poet's hideous, obscenely cannibalistic fate...
...plan places an extra burden on the teachers. They must make absolutely sure that the laggard student has no emotional or mental block, that every effort is made to save him, and that he has the right of appeal. But for all that, the plan works. Of those expelled, more than half have returned, and most are doing well. Joyce, for instance, has so far this year earned one H (the highest mark given), two As, three Bs. Moreover, says Superintendent Warren, "achievement scores on twelfth grade examinations have gone up. It has become respectable in Calgary...
...threats to our society from mental ills, broken homes, crime-ridden cities, imperfect governments and the even less perfect relationships among governments, are as pressing as any," he says. "And the humanities, which give quality to life and also to most of us our deepest understanding, must continue to be cultivated if we are to build and maintain a culture worth preserving, and produce people equipped in heart and mind to carry such large responsibility...