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When Actress Kim Stanley quit the cast of A Touch of the Poet, Eugene O'Neill's current Broadway hit (TIME, April 6), it was rumored that she was feuding with Broadway's First Lady Helen Hayes (Kim's mother in the play). Fed up with the lingering flap, Actress Hayes, in a letter last week to weekly Variety, said: "There were times, late in the run, when Kim would have tried the patience of a saint, with her striving for [an] opening-night level of performance-even on rainy Thursdays. But nothing will wipe...
After 19 years of practicing at a hospital for alcoholics in Seattle, Dr. Paul O'Hollaren is acutely aware of each move leading to the bottom of the bottle. For the guidance of general practitioners, Dr. O'Hollaren in Medical Times charts a timetable of symptoms drawn from 147 male patients who began drinking at ages 18 to 19, and eventually wound up in his Shadel Hospital. Dr. O'Hollaren's statistics confirm his theory that it usually takes about 18 years to become a confirmed alcoholic. The journey's main stages...
Little Hope. Ultimate symptoms multiply-delirium tremens, extreme nervousness, avitaminosis. The patient deteriorates physically, socially, maritally, emotionally, occupationally, neurologically. Treatment becomes more difficult; the prognosis rapidly dims. The alcoholic has hit bottom. Mean time for Dr. O'Hollaren's 147 patients: 18.4 years...
Blaming Profits. Congress also was beginning to dig into prices. One big reason they are so high, believe Tennessee's Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver and Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, is the "administered price," which largely ignores demand in deference to industry's effort to improve profits. Last week the Senate antitrust subcommittee, headed by Senator Kefauver, held hearings on a bill introduced by Senator O'Mahoney to require companies in highly concentrated industries to give 30 days' advance notice of any price hike...
...Blough, is "like trying to check the rising pressure in a steam boiler by plugging up the safety valve." The real cause of rising industrial prices since the war, charged Blough, is rising employment costs, which now "represent more than 75% of all costs." Furthermore, said Blough, the O'Mahoney bill would "diminish still further the profit incentive," could lead to "the destruction of the greatest industrial machine the world has thus far known...