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...desk, amidst the maze of blueprints and French curves, he was surprised to see a friendly, non-technical face--a small wooden frame enveloping rows of large beads. Taking note of his childlike delight at meeting an ally in the enemy camp, the receptionist explained, "They use it when the machine breaks down." And he wasn't afraid any more...
Veterans in various stages of khaki dress and nervousness walked into a massive grey building on Manhattan's noisy Seventh Avenue. They came singly and in pairs, in tow of wives, sweethearts, mothers, fathers. On the ninth floor they found a friendly receptionist who took them in hand, ushered them into a pastel green haven with a fascinating array of gleaming gadgets and tweedy psychiatrists. The psychiatrists worked swiftly and efficiently. By nightfall 180 troubled veterans had spilled their principal worries, trooped out. Scrawled on the wall outside was an eloquent parting shot: "Kilroy was here...
...stickler for detail, Dr. Brown includes even the receptionist in his scheme of therapy, trains every clinic employe to put patients at ease. To find out more about his patients' families and friends, he invites them to dances at the clinic. "A psychiatric social worker sensitized to the problem," says Dr. Brown, "talks to the patient's guests...
...Army had learned by experience: the way to subdue Sewell Avery was by envelopment, not frontal attack. In Chicago last week, Major General Joseph Wilson Byron politely stepped up to Montgomery Ward & Co.'s efficient receptionist Helen Love, asked to see Ward's stubborn $100,000-a-year president Sewell Lee Avery. Over an interoffice phone, she conveyed General Byron's message. It was: the Army's here agin...
Marriage Revealed. Ted Husing, 42, high-domed, fast-talking sportscaster; and Iris Lemerise, 27, onetime Columbia Broadcasting System receptionist; in a secret ceremony last April; he for the third time, she for the first ; in Louisville...