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...collaboration with British-born Anthropologist Gregory Bateson, Swiss-born Dr. Jurgen Ruesch has written Communication, the Social Matrix of Psychiatry (Norton; $4.50), in an attempt to tie insanity and psychiatry with communication engineering and other sciences (among them, cybernetics) into a single system. Samples from Ruesch's chapters...
...monastic Paris quarters, Le Corbusier replied calmly: "There will be a central grocery where the tenants can buy their wine every day." The Swiss-born architect had no sympathy for people who wanted to keep a few old bottles of their own in a cool, dark place. "Let them go and live elsewhere...
...apartment house on stilts which Swiss-born Architect Le Corbusier had designed for Marseille (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948) was well under way; one of its 300-odd apartments was already furnished and open for inspection. Visitors found the apartment neat and ingenious but cramped, and one Marseille newspaper complained that the finished building would cost as much as 600 nice little private houses...
Life With Father. The indomitability had cropped out in him early, though not in the sense approved by Horatio Alger. He was the third child (in a family of five boys, three girls) of a Swiss-born construction contractor named William Rickenbacher.* Father Rickenbacher was a big, black-haired man with a violent temper and a deep belief in the cultural influences of a razor strop. Eddie, on the other hand, was driven by an unconquerable urge to make up his own rules and see that everybody else played by them. "I was just ornery," he says...
Died. Dr. Adolf Meyer, 83, Swiss-born doctor who became one of the U.S.'s topflight psychiatric teachers and researchers, director for 31 years of Johns Hopkins's Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic; in Baltimore...