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People who uncontrollably utter obscenities may be more sick than sickening. Doctors have long known (TIME, Aug. 29, 1949) that such compulsive cursing, often accompanied by a violent muscular tic, may precede insanity...
...current British Medical Journal, London's Dr. Richard P. Michael gives the case history of a 28-year-old man who was a spectacular example of the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (named for the French doctor who outlined the symptoms in 1885). The patient developed a tic at the age of seven, was an accomplished curser at 13, when even the reading of Tom Sawyer would set him off on a string of oaths. When he entered the British army at 18, he unaccountably stopped swearing, nevertheless managed to make sergeant...
When he was back home at 22, his tic returned, and he started cursing again-from ten to 40 times an hour. "By this time," notes Psychiatrist Michael, "both his mother and his sister were refusing to accompany him out of the house." When psychotherapy failed, Dr. Michael tried giving his patient inhalations of carbon dioxide four times a week, hoping to slow down the responses of the nervous system. "The frequency of his utterances decreased," reports the doctor, "and he was discharged from the hospital after 30 treatments." Minus his tic and with an innocent tongue, the patient...
...that marries couples on the air and presents them with gifts, a reception and honeymoon. Arthur Murray Party, a perennial replacement, has already bounced cheerily on screen in full color, and will move into half of Robert Montgomery's Monday place next month. Although such giveaways as Tic Tac Dough and The Price Is Right trudge on in the daytime, NBC will cancel Home, its 3½-year-old, hour-long "service" show, in August. NBC is also mercifully scrapping the Tonight format and reverting to the freewheeling foolishness of the old Ernie Kovacs-Steve Allen days, with slouchy...
...college roommates, "Charlie used to have a recurring dream about a billfold in which there was a $20 bill, and when you took the bill away, there would be another one there." Charlie sought the magic billfold last November when a friend told him about the easy money on Tic-Tac-Dough, another Barry-Enright production. He looked so promising that the producers put him on Twenty One. But Charlie's dream has come true with some nightmarish side effects. "Here I am with all this money and celebrity," he lamented last week, "but I don't have...