Word: washingtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested in the mentally ill has Therapist Chace become that she has taken basic courses at the Washington School of Psychiatry, regularly attends clinical sessions at the hospital. She has trained most of the nation's dance therapists, is also a leader in the related field of drama therapy. Full of honors and awards, Marian Chace still feels a surge of triumph when a patient manages to dance his way-however briefly-out of his world of isolation. Says she: "They offer to carry the record player, or choose a record, or get together to plan a production. These...
Heading HOPE is an energetic, 38-year-old Washington, D.C. internist named William Walsh. One of the outgrowths of President Eisenhower's people-to-people program of 1956 to boost international ties, HOPE has already received "substantial" amounts (biggest donors: the drug companies), and Walsh is convinced that Consolation will sail on schedule, accomplish Ike's original idea. "This is going to have a tremendous impact," says Walsh. "We can do it in other parts of the world-there are four more hospital ships in mothballs. It's a cheap way of waging peace...
...Louisiana State University and, until his resignation (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951), tried without much success to deflate big-time athletics, bring in out-of-state professors. Until his appointment last fall as president of New York City's Queens College, he did assorted deaning at the University of Washington and New York University. Some of his observations...
...must learn to expect anything. An old lady in Washington, D.C. asked the repairman to run the new telephone wire through her parakeet's cage so that he "would have something interesting to perch on" (refused). A Chicago woman insisted on having her wall telephone four inches from the floor so that she would be forced to exercise while bending to answer it (granted). One telephone man was called to a Chicago hotel to repair a badly frayed cord, discovered the cause of the trouble as he was leaving: sitting in the bathtub was a pet lion...
Changing Ears. Without the telephone, the nation's business and pleasure would come to a virtual standstill. In Washington, the world's talkingest city (70 telephones per 100 persons v. New York City's 53.8), President Eisenhower can have instant contact with any Cabinet member via a black and gold phone on his desk. In the Pentagon the world's largest switchboard handles 270,000 calls a day from more than 50,000 telephones. Two telephones (a red one connecting with U.S. bases, a black one with overseas bases) at Strategic Air Command headquarters would flash...