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Tours of the Psychological Laboratories in the basement of Memorial Hall will be conducted today at 2:30 p.m. and tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. There Psychological Laboratories, including the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratories, provide facilities for research and experimental psychology...
...cheery rejoinders ("Good old rain"), the cabby turned to state his symptoms: "Say doc, I've got some pains in my back. I feel terrible." As Author Peale tells it. he replied: "Although I'm not accustomed to practicing in taxicabs, I think you have psycho-sclerosis...
...psycho-sclerotics everywhere, the book news of the year is that the analgesic of Norman Vincent Peale's "positive thinking" is available in a new container. In keeping with Peale's injunction to "think big, believe big. act big," his publishers are planning big (first printing: 100,000 copies) and spending big (initial advertising budget: $45,000). They also expect to keep cash registers Pealing merrily with an offer to book dealers: 15 copies free for every 100 orders of the pastor's backlog, e.g., The Power of Positive Thinking, A Guide to Confident Living...
Since the common psycho-sclerotic spends his days "mouthing negativisms" and cultivating "defeat tendencies," Stay Alive's pages are alive with Before-And-After-Positive-Thinking testimonials. There is the case of the too-busy industrialist who came on hard times. To pay for groceries the man and his wife ("almost strangers to each other") picked blueberries "on opposite sides of a high bush." With "positive thinking" all came right in the end ("We found God and each other in a blueberry patch"). A disgruntled dining-car waiter was about ready to crown some of his patrons with...
AUGUST. Presley sings in Boston and thirty-seven mice stage a mass escape from the psycho labs beneath Mem Hall. Presley receives his draft notice and mass suicides follow. Russia gives Cecil B. DeMille rights to produce a film about the October revolution on location. Hemingway and Faulkner go on a fishing trip in the West Indies, come back with a new book entitled, "Beards, Booze, and Old Time Religion." Report sighting strange figure on raft, nude to waist, brandishing harpoon...