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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about which they agree." Besides, he said, Beard had "exposed ... the idea that historians could ever be entirely objective." Historian Beard took the medal but uttered not a word. Among the new members who were to be formally inducted (but failed to show up): Novelist John Dos Passes, Poet W. H. Auden, Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson and Critic Bernard De Voto...
Mind v. Brain. Schizophrenia (split personality) is probably the commonest form of insanity. Where does it start, in the mind or in the brain? Most psychiatrists think schizophrenia is faulty functioning of the mind. On the basis of postmortem studies of ten patients with schizophrenia, Philadelphia's Nathaniel W. Winkelman came to the contrary conclusion that the disease should be considered organic: there are, he reported, changes in the brain that can be seen under the microscope. He found, for instance, a decrease in ganglion cells, and an unusual amount of fat in the cells. Most of his subjects...
...Norton was born and raised in Hampton, N.H., and prepped at Exeter. He left Harvard during his freshman year to support himself and three younger brothers after the death of their parents. Starting in Boston's Jordan Marsh Co., he worked his way up in various stores (e.g., W. T. Grant Co. and Filene's in Boston), until he joined Ward...
Health education for secondary school teachers will come in for a four-week graduate seminar sponsored jointly by the Summer School and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, George W. Adams, Director of the Summer School, reported last night...
PitcherG I.P. H R ER ERAV HR BB SO WP SB W-L Godin 12 681/2 51 32 22 2:89 0 54 70 4 10 4--2 Turner 3 32/3 7 3 3 3.12 0 2 2 0 0 0--0 Roche 3 112/3 12 13 6 4.63 1 9 6 0 3 1--1 Connolly 7 552/3 62 42 29 4.69 5 35 38 0 19 0--5 Hymans 3 11 13 11 10 8.81 1 11 12 2 2 2--1 Hansen 1 3 6 5 4 12.00 0 1 3 1 0 0--0 Merser...