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...practitioners are also, of course, its salesmen. One of its most earnest practitioners and salesmen is a rangy, friendly, 49-year-old Kansan named William Claire* Menninger (with a hard g). This month Dr. Menninger is spending only nine days in his neat, pine-paneled office in Topeka. The rest of the time he will be on the road, making speeches and drumming up enthusiasm at committee meetings, policy conferences, and get-togethers of the high brass of U.S. psychiatry...
This week Dr. Will has been busy with some psychiatric promotion on his home grounds in Topeka: a meeting of psychiatrists and interested laymen to discuss a topic full of heavy psychiatric overtones: "Our Children in the Atomic Age." Thanks to the Menninger family, Topeka, in the U.S. heartland, is a world center of modern psychiatry. It is the only city in the U.S. where psychiatrists outnumber all other kinds of doctors; it is the largest training center for psychiatrists in the world; it trains 15% of all the psychiatrists now being trained in the U.S. Topeka is the home...
...there"). He takes his job of promoting psychiatry as seriously as if he were a Midwestern drummer selling widgets; he used to carry in his pocket a little black book full of jokes and limericks, ready for impromptu speeches at medical dinners. (He lost it moving from Washington to Topeka after...
There is not a touch of the Hollywood-style, burning-eyed psychiatrist about Dr. Will as he greets friends or patients. He has a hearty Chamber-of-Commerce handshake (he belongs to the Topeka C. of C.), looks and acts like the safe kind of fellow a lonely traveler would pick to talk to on a Pullman club car. He lives with his attractive, intelligent wife (who teaches child care at Topeka's Washburn Municipal University) and three sons (Roy, 22, now at New York-Cornell University Medical College, Phil, 20, and Walter, 17) in an eleven-room, white...
...Mann Act. The charge: importing a 15-year-old white high-school sophomore from Salina, Kans., for a weekend in New York (Rex had made the plane reservation for her, and she had given the family the slip by telling them that she was going shopping in Topeka). When the 53-year-old actor heard that he might be taken back to Kansas City for trial, he cried: "But I don't want to go to Kansas City. I've got a new show [Charleston, 1822, a Theatre Guild production] that must open on Thursday." Next...