Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...affairs of the mind. At the century's turn, he relates, medical psychology was virtually nonexistent in Britain. The doctors' approach to the mind was through the brain and other physical components of the nervous system, so Jones became a neurologist. (So was Freud.) Next, he went through a phase of studying medical uses of hypnotism. (So did Freud.) Then he discovered Freud's early writings on psychoanalysis, and knew that he had found the one true faith...
...entered into a seven-year relationship with a woman he identifies only as Loe. They lived openly together and traveled in Europe, Canada and the U.S. as man and wife. Indirectly, it was Jones's conversion to psychoanalysis that ended this partnership. Loe became emotionally ill, went to Freud to be analyzed-and, as a result, broke off with Jones...
Drifting south to Los Angeles, he went to work as a TV announcer. Within a month, the station was hit by a strike. Douglas' reaction: he conned three actors off the picket line and sold them (complete with sponsors) to a competing channel...
...impounded issues and jailed staffers, sometimes confiscated the cameras of Drum photographers on the ground that any "coloured" with a camera must surely have stolen it. These difficulties do not perturb Drum's Editor Henry Thomas Hopkinson, 54, former editor of the London Picture Post (now defunct), who went to Johannesburg in 1958, regularly entertains native staffers in his home...
After a quarter century as the highflying boss of Eastern Air Lines, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker this week turned over the controls to a new pilot. In as president and chief executive officer of Eastern, the third-ranking U.S. domestic air carrier (4.4 billion revenue passenger miles in 1958), went Malcolm A. Maclntyre, 51. Under Secretary of the Air Force from May 1957 until he resigned in July. In the shuffle, Rickenbacker, 68, kept the board chairmanship, will also head a new seven-man policymaking committee. Ailing (from a back injury) President Thomas F. Armstrong, 56, will become executive vice president...