Word: professionalisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jinxed. In Los Angeles, William Moneymaker went to court, got his name changed to William M. Houston. His reason: Moneymaker was no moniker for his profession-horse racing.
The Front Page (by Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur; produced by Hunt Stromberg Jr. & Thomas Spengler) is still, after 18 years, a good show. Last week it proved it the hard way-by withstanding a half-botched production. Despite rather limp staging and several performers who seemed in the wrong roles...
*In a poll of leading advertising men, the trade magazine Tide found that only 5% considered the book a fair picture of their profession; 21% declared it "untrue and exaggerated."
...exacting process. Analysts take great pains to disassociate themselves from the horde of phony "psychologists" and other quacks. A psychoanalyst, like any other psychiatrist, must have a medical degree, spend at least five years in psychiatric study after his internship and have a complete psychoanalysis of himself to win professional recognition by his colleagues. Many states have no law regulating the practice of psychoanalysis, but associations of psychiatrists lay down standards, try to police their profession...
Recently, at 79, he decjded he had had enough, retired. He took with him his hard-boiled attitude about medicine. Said he: "I don't know any other profession in which you'll find more ignorance, but then if we cured them all the world would be overpopulated...