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...serviceman's wife writing thus to her husband probably suffers from a condition whose other symptoms include severe depressions, colitis, heart palpitations, diarrhea, frequent headaches. Described as a "new disease" by Dr. Jacob Sergi Kasanin, chief psychiatrist at San Francisco's Mt. Zion Hospital, this psychoneurotic condition by last week had become so prevalent among service wives that San Francisco psychiatrists were begging county authorities for the use of hospital wards to treat their patients. An estimated 2,500 women in San Francisco alone have undergone treatment for psychoneurosis during the past 18 months...
...explanation. I also asked a friend of mine to tell the Brazilians not to dance any more because I didn't want any fuss. They left off dancing." ¶ Among the Mayor's shipmates were Negress singer Florence Mills, conductor Walter Damrosch, cartoonist Rube Goldberg, conductor Sergi Koussevitzky. The Mayor was auctioneer for the ship's pool, won a bet on fighter Tunney, etc. ¶ In Manhattan, Mayor Walker's subordinates waited for a glimpse of the unprecedented "service" he last fortnight promised to give his city when he should return...