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Formidable Lingo. The Freudians' Yearbook (International Universities Press; $10) contains contributions from Dr. Brill; Dr. Gregory Zilboorg (the apostle to the publishers, who psychoanalyzed Marshall Field III and Ralph McAllister Ingersoll); Dr. Karl A. Menninger (head of Topeka's famed Menninger Clinic); Dr. Franz Alexander (high priest of Chicago's Institute for Psychoanalysis). Laymen who would like to take a peek inside the temple will have a hard time; the services are conducted in a formidable lingo, which puts new meanings to such familiar words as sublimation, transference and catharsis, and uses such arcane runes as abalienation...
...jukebox and hit-parade tune last week was Lyricist Johnny Mercer's On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe - from the railroad of the same name. Written two years ago for M.G.M.'s yet unreleased The Harvey Girls, the song began catching on a month ago, became one of the quickest hits in the history of the U.S. music business. Sheet-music sales to date...
...Swim. In Topeka, Kans., Gage Park swimming pool reopened with a request to bathers to hang onto their bathing suits this year, because the last time the pool was drained employes found ten suits...
...refuses to guess when Pullman restrictions will be lifted. Others' guesses: 60 to 90 days. Air priorities, tighter now, will continue until airlines get more craft and crews. The shipping squeeze precludes much weekend cruising or transatlantic traveling. More bus equipment is on the way. Toledo to Topeka by taxi is again possible-if the tank stays...
...Colonel William Claire Menninger, famed psychiatrist (not to be confused with his brother, Karl Augustus Menninger, still holding the fort at the brothers' Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kans.), warned Army doctors never to lose patience with soldiers with imaginary ills-most of them need psychiatric care. An Army doctor who says "The bastard isn't going to get away with that" may be merely venting his own resentment at the deprivations he suffers from being in military service. Doctors, Colonel Menninger pointed out, make more financial sacrifice on joining up than any other group...