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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...
WHEN we queried our San Francisco "bureau last week about the prize-winning firm of architects, Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons (see ART), the answer was already blueprinted. No two reporters were ever more on top of their story than Bureau Chief Richard Pollard and Correspondent Charles Mohr. Pollard, it turned out, had commissioned the firm to design a house for him on Belvedere Island in San Francisco Bay (construction starts this week). Mohr rents Architect Donn Emmons' own house, high on a hill above Mill Valley, overlooking the bay. Neither of these glasshouse enthusiasts had a stone to throw...
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...
With national politics beginning to heat up, TIME correspondents last week were hitting the campaign trail. Chicago Correspondent Edwin Darby was in Ohio, finishing his report for this week's cover story on Governor Frank Lausche. At the same time, San Francisco Correspondent Charles Mohr ended a strenuous ten days of zigzagging about northern California, covering Candidates Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. Exhausted but exhilarated, Charlie Mohr reported: "I'd rather be covering politics in California than in any other state. Where is there such an embarrassment of riches in presidential possibilities? Besides, California politicians are not only...