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Died. Dr. Charles Frederick Menninger, 91, pioneer physician who founded the Menninger Clinic (now the famed Menninger Foundation) in Topeka. Kans. (1919), and with his two sons. Karl and William, developed it into one of the world's top-ranking centers of psychiatric research, treatment and training; after long illness; in Topeka...
...Most of us have a job in which there are some eight balls that we're associated with," said Topeka's famed psychiatrist, Dr. William Menninger (TIME, Oct. 25, 1948), in a talk last week to a Chicago convention of 1,500 supermarket executives. Menninger had come to plead that U.S. industry, which provides first-aid stations for physical ills, should start providing the same service for emotional ills...
When Karl Menninger was a reporter on the Topeka Capital, he learned to pack the "who, what, where, when & how" of a news story lead into a few short, sharp words. Then he became a psychiatrist, like his father and brother William (TIME, Oct. 25, 1948), and ever since, he has found himself hearing and talking, reading and writing a jabberwocky jargon which meant different things to different experts and nothing to most laymen. Last week, Psychiatrist Menninger struck a blow for common sense and understandability in the naming of mental illness...
Three hours after the committee reported in Topeka, Wes Roberts slipped into a side door of the White House with a letter in his pocket. He handed Dwight Eisenhower his resignation as the $32,500-a-year national chairman, and then issued a bitter statement: "I have resigned because a carefully contrived and thinly veiled plot growing out of a fierce factional fight in Kansas state politics has destroyed my usefulness as national chairman." President Eisenhower issued a quiet statement of his own: "I believe his decision a wise...
...Kansas last week, farmers from Abilene to Topeka watched and worried as dust storms swirled across the state, silting down the new grass and dimming the sun. Across the U.S., politicians' eyes were watching an entirely different kind of Kansas storm, a political tempest, its gusts reaching all the way to Washington. In its center was Charles Wesley (Wes) Roberts, 49, chairman of the Republican National Committee...