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Doctors do not know exactly how electrical therapy works. Shock treatment specialists have supposed that it takes a strong shock to jar a disordered mind out of its schizophrenic or manic depressive state. But Britain's Drs. A. Spencer Paterson and W. Liddell Milligan tried a new machine that feeds into the brain a weak electrical current automatically adjusted to the brain's resistance. Instead of shocking the brain, the current puts it in a coma. Like the shock treatment, the new electrical shot-in-the-brain momentarily stops the patient's heartbeat and breathing. But after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not So Shocking | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...Paterson and Milligan hope the change is for the better. At any rate, they observe, it's safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not So Shocking | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

...months before, an eager young jazz enthusiast named Michael Levin, editor of Down Beat, had dropped in at Sandy's, a bar-&-grill joint in Paterson, N.J. He found the barflies listening to the Mooney group in reverent silence, saw Proprietor Sandy shoo out paying customers who dared talk above the music. Levin listened for six hours, went completely overboard, and started a one-man Mooney campaign. He coaxed musicians, bandleaders and managers into making the trip to Paterson to hear "the most exciting musical unit in the U.S. today," devoted nine columns to Mooney in Down Beat, started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fresh Air on 52nd Street | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Sure Cure. In Paterson, N.J., Arthur Pacific went out for a short beer, got shanghaied to Naples, spent four years in Nazi prison camps, finally came home, took the pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 7, 1946 | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

Blind Staggers. In Paterson, N.J., Arthur Phillips stumbled into a police station, flung 50? on the desk, cried: "Give us all a drink," was being led away when William O'Rourke staggered in, hiccuped: "I'll have the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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