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Hooray for Drs. Maskin and Uhler ! [TIME, Aug. 12]. To other adjectives describing many Army psychiatrists they might well have added smug, arrogant, bigoted, vindictive and sadistic...
Eight Balls. Dr. Claude Uhler of Dallas spent most of the war attached to an outfit of "eight balls," chronic misfits who had sifted down to the unexacting job of guard at a P.W. camp in the U.S. Thirty percent of them should have been discharged as unfit for any kind of duty, wrote Uhler in the A.M.A. Journal. They were kept in service by the Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase. Results: "More than one-half million misfits carried along for an indefinite period...
...Army's top psychiatrist, Brigadier General William C. Menninger, hit the ceiling when he read Dr. Uhler's charges, retorted last week in the A.M.A. Journal that Dr. Uhler himself "lacked the capacity to adjust"-i.e., must have been an eight ball. U.S. psychiatrists got ready to debate their own claims and pretensions as well as their Army gripes...
King of the atomic world at Westinghouse is Dr. Edward Uhler Condon, Coauthor of Quantum Mechanics and The Theory of Atomic Spectra, a distinguished theoretical physicist at Princeton before going to East Pittsburgh two years...
...Uhler admitted that there might be a slight error in the last digit of one of his values but he had checked and rechecked to hold the possible error to a minimum. "Even a single false digit," said he, "in the published value of a basic constant can cause incalculable loss of time and energy...