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...instance, 17 times? These all too familiar examples appear in the growing body of literature concerned with what is known as the "Battered Child Syndrome." The phrase was coined eight years ago by Dr. C. Henry Kempe, chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, during a pioneer investigation of child beating and its causes. Kempe and other investigators have since gained a better understanding of battering parents, and have developed a form of therapy that is now proving successful in curbing their excesses...
Coco also sets some sort of anticipation record, for Brisson has been laboring over this show for the past twelve years. "I'd been fascinated with Chanel since I was ten." Brisson says, "when I was at school in England. I was fascinated by this woman who cut her hair, smoked in public, wore pants." Brisson approached Lerner in 1960, but they did not start work together on Coco until 1965. By that time. Chanel had seen Lerner's My Fair Lady and loved it. "I was convinced that Lerner was incapable of doing anything vulgar," she said...
...with an honors degree in economics. During World War II, he was a major in the Marines. He earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics at M.I.T. in 1949, then joined the faculty as a professor of industrial relations. Later, he went to the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and became its dean in 1962. He is married to a former Army nurse, and they have five children...
...growth has created an unusual demand for young executives, and Clark has developed an equally unusual method of training them. Every year Amexco assigns six or seven new graduate-school alumni to be management consultants within Amexco. Each one studies a particular new business opportunity or competitive threat and develops a program to deal with it. By the time they are through, says Clark, "they know the company inside out," and are usually enthused about it and ready for major operating responsibility. Meanwhile they save American Express a consultant...
Students, teachers, England and the world have altered considerably in 35 years. But Brookfield School remains a tranquil antechamber to gentlemanhood, where the master now reigns in the person of Peter O'Toole. Discarding the shy, dry Donat approach, O'Toole becomes his own man, a conflicted figure changing imperceptibly from instructor to institution, like an elm turning, cell by cell, into petrified rock. The result is one of the slyest and subtlest performances in his career...