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...American Journal of Psychiatry, Dr. Peter A. Peffer, manager of the Perry Point, Md. Veterans Administration Hospital, told about a new "rehabilitation incentive" for mental patients: money. Peffer has carefully transferred partially cured psychiatric patients at his hospital to the status of "member employees.'' (Sample jobs: landscape worker, painter, janitor.) He found that a monthly paycheck for many patients is a valuable bridge between life in an institution and life in society outside, restores their self-esteem and greatly accelerates recovery...
...year, most books on China were reviewed by [the same people] with the same point of view." They included Owen Lattimore; Theodore (Thunder Out of China) White and his collaborator Annalee Jacoby; the late Richard Lauterbach (Danger from the East); John K. Fairbank, history professor at Harvard, and Nathaniel Peffer, professor of international relations at Columbia (both longtime apologists...
...Aklavik in the icy Arctic came Fur Trader Stan Peffer (also a hotel owner, grocer, theater operator, sawmill proprietor). In Edmonton on his annual business trip south last week he told a tale that sounded prehistoric...
Wesleyan University has invited all Harvard students to attend its annual Parley on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of next week. The subject will be "American Foreign Policy" and many authorities will speak, among them Senator Nye, Adolph A. Berle, Jr. '12, assistant, Secretary of State, and Nathaniel Peffer, authority on the Far East. Wesleyan will arrange for accommodations and meals at its own expense...
Those who voted were: Clyde Eagleton, professor at New York University, John K. Fairbank '29, instructor in History, Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, William Potter Lage '30, attorney, Frank W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, George Sylvester Viereck, author and editor, and Peffer...