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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coed Sports. Riverside Hospital should be perfect for the purpose. Finished early in World War II as a TB hospital, it was never opened as such because it could not be staffed. Now it has been refurbished to treat 100 boys and 50 girls; mess halls, classes and sports will be run on a coed basis. Addicts may be committed voluntarily by their parents (most of the first admissions last week were of this type), or by the courts, including the city's special Narcotics Term Court recently set up for juveniles...
Nowadays Miss X's illness would be called schizophrenia and an effort would be made to treat it. Her "acute mania" went untreated and got worse. From her record for Sept. 6, 1892: "Very disorderly and untidy. Nervous and tears her clothing. She has to be fed." For Dec. 29, 1893 (when she was 24): "Unchanged. Received a rubber doll for Christmas and seemed quite pleased with...
Between shows in the capital, Musi-comedienne Carol (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) Channing disclosed that her giddy role had not kept her from observing a phenomenon across the local footlights. Her dictum: "Washington audiences come to the theater as researchers. They watch me like hawks and . . . treat me with the deference they would accord to a symphony, but it's impersonal . . . If Americans are ready to accept big people with close-cropped hair and large eyes like me, Washington wants to know about it. I have a feeling I'm being examined and absorbed and filed away, because...
...Thanks to a fermentation process in which mold-microbes (captured on a windowsill in Kalamazoo) perform a dozen complicated chemical processes, the Upjohn Co. has boosted production of cortisone and cut its price by 20%. Neck & neck in the same race, Schering Corp. can now get enough cortisone to treat a patient for three weeks from the bile of only two cattle (it used to take...
...licensed to treat eye diseases, but simply to measure the eyes' performance...