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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Between 1910 and 1945, said the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, the "female rate of chronic alcoholism" dropped from...
...high turnover in city editors. One reason is the managing editor, crusty, hard-riding John B. T. Campbell, who used to be city editor himself and still acts like one; he is a fast man with the pink slip. Managing Editor Campbell has been firing city editors at the rate of two a year; in the process he virtually reduced the job to schedule-shuffling while he bossed the show from a city-room desk. What Campbell needed was somebody who could put up with him, and if need be, talk back to him. In long-suffering, trumpet-voiced "Aggie...
...with big-name writers to whom it has offered not money but space: a place to be as highbrow as they like, to talk to their own kind and never mind being intelligible to the uninitiated. The result has been sometimes stuffy, oftentimes overreaching, but usually stimulating. Such first-rate writers and critics as Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Andre Gide and Edmund Wilson have sold Partisan Review articles for a token $2 a page. Poets T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Karl Shapiro and Robert Lowell were paid $3 a page. Thanks to Publisher...
Lobotomy, a close second in popularity, is a tension-relieving brain operation (TIME, Dec. 23). More than 3,000 U.S. citizens have already had pre-frontal lobotomies, and the current rate is some 500 a year. The operation slices through a section of the frontal lobe, and is supposed to break up the disturbing mental patterns that have unbalanced the patient. In six out of ten cases lobotomy seems to be successful. But one patient in ten is relaxed too much by the operation; three in ten remain tense. Psychiatrists recommend the operation only for otherwise incurable psychotics...
...will still be possible to exchange a single season ticket in order to secure two together, the extra coming at full rate...