Word: mohr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compassionate sensitivity for the little things. Last week TIME assigned just that kind of reporting task to its correspondents. From reporters across the U.S. came rich detail that developed into a theme: the U.S. in this midsummer is on the move, bag, baggage and children. Correspondent Charles Mohr, driving crosscountry from San Francisco to his new assignment in the Washington bureau, tuned in a sharp traveler's-eye view. Mohr noted, in addition to such phenomena as foam-rubber hats and rock-'n'-roll-loving Indians, that the new state turnpikes are working a special kind...
...boxes were empty, dust covers lined the balustrades. A 62-piece orchestra was spread over the stripped main floor, and a 30-voice chorus was onstage. The principals stood at the music stand in bright cotton prints or sports shirts and slacks. In the control foyer Music Director Richard Mohr and the technicians hunched over the controls...
Choice of Illness. A mother's anxieties about various aspects of her child's bodily functions may play an important part in the youngster's unconscious "choice" of psychosomatic illness, said Dr. George J. Mohr of Los Angeles' Mount Sinai Hospital. Some mothers nag about feeding or bowel movements; in such a setting the child may develop ulcerative colitis. If mother worries every time baby wheezes, he may "choose" asthma...
...Mohr cited the case history of a nine-year-old boy who complained of bellyaches after meals. His mother said that his pains were similar to hers-and she had a duodenal ulcer. Dr. Mohr found that the woman had not wanted the child; motherhood had made her give up a promising art career. He decided that her pains and her child's were both reactions to frustration and stress...
Over in Mill Valley the Mohr family, happily installed in the Emmons house with its long view of the bay, have taken up birdwatching. "But you don't have to hike anywhere to watch them," says Mohr. "Since three sides of the living room are of glass, you can spot the birds from a reclining position on the sofa...