Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gate for Eight. Dr. Curtis saw 31 expectant fathers with emotional problems, sent to him by the medics handling sick call. Most of the fathers were anticipating a first child, but some were up to their third or fourth or more. He separated the men into Group A, with 17 cases whose problems he rated as serious (seven of the men were unmarried), and Group B, with 14 men whose difficulties were similar in kind but minor in degree. In addition, he compared these groups with 24 expectant fathers who were not referred to him and were supposedly normal-though...
...simpleminded. An ambitious small-towner exploits his brother's boxing talents, and by overmatching him, causes him to be so gravely injured that he can never fight again. The double bromide: ambition is a drug on the market, but no cure in itself for those who are sick for success. The Gambler ("Security is for suckers"), on CBS's U.S. Steel Hour (Wed. 10 p.m., E.D.T.), was a character study of a megalomaniac, painted in overripe colors. The gambler (Jack Carson), at the nadir of his career (he is broke), risks whatever is dear...
Point of View. In Pasadena, Calif., Arline Fudge, 19, won an annulment from Melvin Fudge, 24, after testifying that "when he looked at me frontways, he said I looked O.K. to him, but when he looked at me sideways, he said I made him sick...
...Manhattan's LEOPOLD SILBERSTEIN, 51, who started out as a "professor of sick companies" in Germany during the 1920s, made his first U.S. raid by buying 75,000 shares (of 148,000 outstanding) in the small, shaky Pennsylvania Coal & Coke Corp. With that as a base, he diversified into gas and oil, went on to take over companies making cables, power shovels, and cranes (Industrial Brownhoist Corp.). With cash from his growing empire (now called Penn-Texas Corp.), he recently bought 80,000 shares of machine tool maker Niles-Bement-Pond, whose stock was selling a few points below...
...Manhattan's PENNROAD CORP. which has joined with other investors to raid and reorganize sick companies. In 1952 Pennroad with Harris Upham and others secretly started buying stock in South America Gold & Platinum Co., which had a cash kitty of $4,000,000 (about 50% of its net worth), two years later had enough stock to oust the management. Last year Pennroad used South American's kitty to buy another gold company with $6,000,000 more in the till, then merged the two, diversified into cement and pipelines. As a result, South American's profits...