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...Print, a literary quiz program under the guidance of Tune Detective Sigmund Spaeth, which is being broadcast by CBS on Sundays at 6 in place of the Silver Theatre...
...field of psycho-investigation opened by Sigmund Freud has been plowed, tramped, and camped on. In spite of picnickers with ants in their pants and farmers with bees in their bonnets, the field has produced some good grain, along with many a tare. Last week the field was entered by two authors who analyze the work of Freud by widely differing methods but reach the same conclusion: that psychoanalysis is an overrated science...
Promised attractions: Presidential Perennial Norman Thomas, Mouthpiece Sam Leibowitz as endmen; Al Smith, Dr. Sigmund Spaeth and Robert Moses for close harmony...
...Sigmund Freud tackled the tabooed problem like a scientific poet, using words to dig up the roots of personality and family ties. His young friend Eugen Steinach went at the job in more orthodox fashion, in a laboratory, cutting up white rats to discover the secret of sexuality in glands and juices. Steinach became professor of physiology at the University of Vienna. There he got interested in the idea of staving off old age, and, after many years of research, devised a sex-gland operation to "reactivate" failing men, thrice "reactivated" himself. Like Freud, he was denounced as a charlatan...
...gigantic ferroconcrete château in Southern California he lives with his young mistress, Virginia Maunciple, a born courtesan with a short upper lip who frequently repairs, for penitence, to the "Lourdes Grotto" which "Uncle Jo" has built for her. Jo's other mainstay is sleek, Levantine Dr. Sigmund Obispo, who keeps the old man hopped up with hormone injections, and searches, meanwhile, for the substance by which, in Marxist John Strachey's optimistic phrase, "death might be indefinitely postponed." The doctor enjoys Jo Stoyte's mistress, old Jo himself does a bit of murder, and finally...