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...until last week, when a grand jury handed up its presentment, did Manhattanites learn the why & wherefore of the wayward bus driver. Bragg had been driving buses for the same company for nine years when, in 1945, he was admitted to Rockland State Hospital suffering from paranoid schizophrenia (severe mental derangement, with delusions of persecution). By year's end he was on the job again: the hospital director declared Bragg "sufficiently recovered to operate a motor vehicle." He was confined for another attack...
...with Religion. "Catholicism in the United States is ... booming, aggressive, materialistic, socially ambitious, and inclined to use its membership as a paranoid pressure group, threatening anyone who so much as criticizes the way it ties its shoelaces. It gives the immaculately mannered Italian nobles in the Vatican shivers of revulsion...
Press releases for "The Strange Door" claim that it was adapted from a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. I, for one, don't believe it. Nobody could have hashed together this melange of 17th century torture chambers, spooky castles, and paranoid noblemen except Universal-International, looking for another vehicle for Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff...
...star-shaped hole higher up in the left temple. During the night he had shot himself with his .38-cal. revolver. But instead of taking his life, he had accidentally performed a crude kind of bilateral frontal lobotomy,* a tricky piece of neurosurgery sometimes used to relieve paranoid depression and other psychoses (TIME, May 28). At the hospital, surgeons could only clean up the wounds, remove some small bone fragments and wait to see what would happen...
...Angeles court, his wife charged L. Ron Hubbard, 40, disciple and founder of dianetics, "the modern science of mental health," with bigamy, cruelty and "systematic torture." He is also a paranoid schizophrenic, she added, and she wants a divorce...