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...late Ernest Jones (1879-1958) is best known as the author whose massive The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953 et seq.) gave the world its best glimpse so far at what went on behind the brooding brow of the father of psychoanalysis. But Welsh-born Ernest Jones was also the No. 1 psychoanalyst of the English-speaking world. In Free Associations (Basic Books; $5), his unfinished autobiography published last week, Jones offers the world a posthumous look into his own lively mind...
...high endeavour . . . miscarried through the petty episode of Lord Charles Beresford's developing a boil on the bottom at the critical moment." At this critical moment in his anecdote, Jones drops the laconic footnote, "Private information," and rushes on in a mountain torrent of Welsh reminiscences...
...cleaning establishment (asked by the McClellan committee to name some of the hoodlums he had got rid of since becoming Teamster president, Hoffa had the gall to list the late Frank Kierdorf). Other ex-convict business agents of Hoffa-controlled Teamster locals in and around Detroit include Larry Welsh (convicted of sodomy), Zigmont Snyder (twice convicted of armed robbery) and Jimmy Hoffa's older brother, William (convicted of assault and carrying concealed weapons...
...installment buying. On terms of 20% to 25% down and six to twelve months to pay. Russians will be permitted to sign up for such expensive articles as motorcycles, sewing machines, cameras and luxury clothes. Service charges will be 1% to 2%, and there will be no opportunity to welsh on payments. The monthly bite will come as a payroll deduction...
...regiments that make up the Brigade of Guards. The others: the Grenadier, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards...