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...scene in Duck Soup. In the seven-week case, which goes to the jury this week, the Bank of America accused her of gulling the comedian out of $428,000 before he died in 1977 at the age of 86. After outbursts in court, Fleming was examined by a psychiatrist, who found her "very incoherent, very angry and very mentally ill." But Fleming asserted that Groucho had been crackers and that she had kept him sane and happy. Celebrities who had known Marx, including George Burns and Carroll O'Connor, supported her version. Family members attacked...
...explain their action have not yet been made public, close friends in Britain believe Koestler was the dominant partner. Said one physician who knew the couple well: "My guess is that she did not take a leading role but that Koestler said, 'The time has come.' " U.S. Psychiatrist Herbert Hendin, author of a 1982 study, Suicide in America, points out that in suicide-pact cases he has studied, a common factor is coercion, usually by the man. Says Hendin: "There is a tendency for suicidal people to say that what is a solution for them is a solution...
Another researcher involved in the project, MIT psychiatrist Eric S. Chivian, said yesterday he plans to focus on children's reactions to nuclear...
...sure that the pleasure he felt in making a contribution to medicine outweighed his pain. "There were times when he wanted to die," DeVries admitted to reporters. Questions about Clark's mental state were answered definitively for the first time last week by Dr. Claudia Berenson, a psychiatrist who served on the hospital panel that selected Clark as the first artificial-heart recipient and who has been following his case ever since...
...sudden turnaround. Returning from a brief business trip, Berenson met Clark's wife Una Loy in the hospital corridor and was told, "Barney is great. He is a totally different person." Berenson quickly confirmed this for herself. "He started talking to me like I was a psychiatrist. It was a 20-minute monologue." Now, she said, Clark is "lucid and rational. He wants to participate in his recovery...