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...grand larceny. She wandered aimlessly through the Nystroms' three-story Georgian house, once sat down to pen a short, sad note to Sperling's wife and son: "I wish it could have been me, instead of he, who died." Her pastor called to pray with her; a psychiatrist chatted with her for an hour and concluded: "I guess it amounts to the fact that there are two Christine Nystroms." Heartbroken and haggard, Fred Nystrom could only ponder the lives that Mount Vernon's model girl had mangled...
Some of the reasons, writes Dutch-born Psychiatrist Joost A. M. Meerloo in Postgraduate Medicine, are physical and general. In a crowded, unventilated room there is less oxygen to burn the alcohol in the blood, so the effects of two or three drinks pile up and may make even a seasoned drinker drunk. There is also lower oxygen tension at high altitudes, so drinking is risky in the mountains or in unpressurized airplanes (Dr. Meerloo is not sure about pressurized cabins). In the humid tropics the easy burning of alcohol may cause "an uneasy feeling of congestion" and give...
Died. Dr. Douglas McGlashan Kelley, 45, dynamic, imaginative professor of criminology at the University of California, chief psychiatrist during the Nazi war crimes trial: by his own hand (a dose of potassium cyanide); in Berkeley. Calif. Psychiatrist Kelley (then a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel) interviewed the 22 top-ranking Nazis before the trial, authored (in 1947) a controversial study of his findings (22 Cells in Nuremberg...
...director of psychiatry in one's own college raises special problems. There are a good many Harvard students who, regularly or occasionally, apply to our psychiatric staff for guidance and treatment. Such treatment requires for its effectiveness complete confidence on the part of the student in his psychiatrist. Criticism in this area is a matter to be handled with great delicacy; here assertion becomes action--action which might destroy the necessary confidence. I have found Dr. Farnsworth's book most sensible and even wise. But although, as a teacher, I have had some experience with emotional troubles in students, still...
...took over the nation's fourth larges air carrier at $65,00 a year (v. his $19,000 Government pay) with the goal of getting it our of the red. The danger: eccentric Howard Hughes. T.W.A's owner. a boss as hard to please as a psychiatrist...