Word: salters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever conclusively explained hypnotism. This week a successful practicing hypnotist, Andrew Salter, made a plausible try (What Is Hypnosis- Richard R. Smith, $2). Frowning severely at the hocus-pocus that has surrounded his clouded calling, Salter argued that hypnosis is just another conditioned reflex. No "trance," no "suggestion," no "mind over matter...
...Salter is a quick, intense, 30-year-old Manhattan psychologist who has made a very good thing out of mesmerism. His psychotherapy by means of autohypnosis (TIME, June 2, 1941) is currently a Park Avenue rival of psychoanalysis. For fees from $1,000 up, he has greatly helped a golf professional who was off his game, brooding artists, jittery businessmen, neurotic housewives, drunks, insomniacs, kleptomaniacs - usually in not more than six sessions. Some enthusiasts think that Salter's methods actually threaten psychoanalysts...
...support of his theory, Salter cites experiments by Psychologist C. V. Hudgins, who conditioned human subjects to contract the pupils of their eyes, first in response to a flashing light, then to a bell, then to the word "contract," then to the mere thought of the word "contract...
From Ankara came a footnote. London Daily Express Correspondent Cedric Salter quoted an unnamed Rumanian who saw Hitler four weeks ago: "I would not say that the war has changed Hitler much outwardly, but of late it has developed one side of his character abnormally. Before the war he was half mystic, half brutal opportunist. The opportunist has faded and with his growing personal solitariness he has become more & more otherworldly. He sleeps badly . . . rarely rises before 10:30 or 11... insists upon being alone for at least an hour each day. . . . His habits are even simpler than they were...
...spoke Sir Arthur Salter, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport: "There have been two periods in this war when the shipping situation was so serious as to threaten the whole issue of the war. Twice the balance was restored, and, to use a transatlantic phrase, twice we have got out from the red by the efforts of the United States of America...