Word: ward
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...work by attendants, the National Mental Health Foundation last year began naming a "Psychiatric Aide of the Year." This week the 1948 award ($500 and a citation) went to Milwaukee's Brand. Chief reason why he was picked by a board of judges that included Author Mary Jane Ward (The Snake Pit): he has stopped using "restraint" (hospital lingo for straitjackets, "camisoles," belts, wristcuffs, etc.). In his ward, Brand has been trying kindness and reasonableness instead...
...Veteran Brand, a onetime shipping clerk who lost his job in the '30s, has been a hospital attendant since 1935. In 1947, after observing for a week at an Illinois state hospital, where the law forbids restraint, he got permission to try the method. In his own ward at the Milwaukee County Asylum, 32 patients had been tied up. He took the restraints off every one. Says he: "The freed patients were like horses that were tied up for years in the barn. Let them go and they run and kick. So I let them. They were happier than...
Faced by these difficulties, reporters and editors were less inclined to give a last-minute story the old college try. Last week, Colonel Bertie McCormick's Tribune and Marshall Field's tabloid Sun-Times both settled for bulletins on a shake-up at Montgomery Ward's (see BUSINESS) that might have filled a column in the same edition in the old days. Said Sun-Times City Editor Karin Walsh: "If we don't hit it in one edition, we'll get it in the next." Even bulletins were made possible only by the Graphotype...
Like an oriental potentate who has beheaded all of his viziers, iron-fisted Sewell Lee Avery sat last week in lonely splendor in his paneled throne room at Chicago's Montgomery Ward & Co., Inc. For one day along the hushed executive corridors he could knock on any door and find no one at home. In Ward's top command, everyone else had quit. There was nobody left but old Sewell, who had once said: "I'll be here until I'm six feet under...
Squeeze. "Ward's had just rung up its biggest profit (equal to $10.28 a share) and the vice presidents were awaiting the customary (up to 50%) bonus on their $35,000 to $45,000 salaries. No, said Avery, there would be no bonus. Instead, the same amount would be given as a salary increase. Said Vice President Charles M. Odorizzi: "We'd have to stay a whole year to collect; it was a dodge to make sure he had us where he wanted...