Word: werthamer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impertinence. The Nation's editors gave "a number of prominent psychiatrists" advance copies of the Ferman article and invited them to reply. Most refused. But from outspoken Psychiatrist-Author Fredric (The Show of Violence) Wertham came outspoken agreement: "What she writes rings true. In fact, I have encountered literally dozens of similar cases . . . Psychiatrists and psychoanalysts are the only physicians who blame the patient-or at least his relatives-when they do not cure...
Right Hand. A fortnight ago, in the Telegraph's erudite gossip column, "London Day by Day," by "Peterborough" (Hugo Wertham), an unobtrusive item recorded an exceptional occurrence at the Telegraph itself. After 48 years on the staff, 70-year-old Editor Watson was retiring. His successor, who took over last week: grey-haired Colin Reith Coote, 56, deputy editor and Watson's right-hand man for the last five years...