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Psychiatric Stickler. Chief of the New York Mental Hygiene Service is bronzed, fawn-eared Psychiatrist Charles Brown who, as an A.A.F. flight surgeon, supervised treatment of some 15,000 neurotic or psychotic Army flyers during the war. Now a civilian again, he has a staff of 31 resident and consulting psychiatrists, and an elaborate assembly of psychiatric paraphernalia. It includes equipment for electric and insulin shock treatments, a six-channel electroencephalograph which can measure electric impulses in six parts of the brain at once, a collection of brand-new drugs, a "psychodrama" theater, movies, soundproofed ceilings, a relaxing lounge...
...stickler for detail, Dr. Brown includes even the receptionist in his scheme of therapy, trains every clinic employe to put patients at ease. To find out more about his patients' families and friends, he invites them to dances at the clinic. "A psychiatric social worker sensitized to the problem," says Dr. Brown, "talks to the patient's guests...
...maidish, a stickler for "gentlemanly" conduct, Jones insists on immaculate all-white court clothes, impeccable court manners. Of his boys he says: "I'm more interested in how they live than in how they play." When he refused to back a Mexican lad named Gonzales, who could beat Herbie Flam, Jones was called a snob. He countered: "That's not true. I dropped him because he wouldn't go to school...
Should the G.I. press be free or slave? In the precise military mind of Lieut. General John C. H. ("Courthouse") Lee, there was no question about it. Last week, at a press conference in Rome, the starched boss of the Mediterranean theater, famed as a stickler for propriety and protocol, sounded off. He had ordered all letters to the once-popular "Mail Call" column of Stars and Stripes "screened" by the brass before publication...
Nothing but the Best. The only legends which have grown up around Krueger have their origin in his directness and outward severity. He is as much a stickler for military form as though he were in the Prussian army. His jeep driver in the combat area must wear proper battle dress, carry full equipment. An officer must execute every order fully and on time, and report on his mission, in proper form. Never having needed an alibi himself, Krueger will take none from others. His inspections are searching, and reflect his deep regard for those vital instruments...