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...Knew Freud Few psychiatrists ever took Sigmund Freud as calmly as did James Tucker Fisher. Perhaps it was his background. Fisher spent the best years of his boyhood in the saddle herding cattle on an Illinois farm, did not learn to read & write until he was 13, dropped out of M.I.T., made a fortune in San Diego real estate, became a veterinarian, and decided not to practice the profession when a proper Bostonian lady refused to marry a "horse doctor." So Fisher went to Harvard, got his M.D. and became a mind doctor...
...Freud had become a legend. As Psychiatrist Fisher, 88, tells it now in A Few Buttons Missing (Lippincott; $3.50), he found Freud "but one of the many distinguished men under whom I studied. And, frankly, one of the less impressive." He adds: "I learned a great deal more about Sigmund Freud by reading about him than I ever learned by listening to him. And I had to wait until he was heralded by the world at large before I . . . could derive any satisfaction from explaining that I used to know him when...
...Fisher adds: "Despite any. . . reservations that have prevented me from becoming a rah-rah boy of the Freudian school, I am quite sure that the contributions of Sigmund Freud toward the advancement of psychotherapy far outweigh the contributions of any other ten men I have...
...goal of every teacher in a great university is to achieve a feeling of intimacy on a large scale." The crowd which packs Emerson 211 every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday to listen to Professor Sigmund Neumann talk on "Europe in World Politics" attests to his success in doing just that...
Some of Mack's management were shuffled upstairs, and Bransome brought in three new top executives: H. William Dodge, ex-boss of sales for the Texas Co., as executive vice president; Sigmund S. Stewart, formerly purchaser for the Air Reduction Co., Inc., as purchasing head; and A. R. Kelso, president of Farmingdale Corp. (airplane parts), as production chief. To cut production costs, Bransome enlarged Mack's engine plant at Plainfield, N.J., moved its transmission and gear production there from nearby New Brunswick...