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Died. Harry Overstreet, 94, author and lecturer who did much to popularize modern psychology and sociology; of heart disease; in Falls Church, Va. In numerous talks and books, most notably 1949's bestselling (500,000 copies sold by 1952) The Mature Mind, Overstreet sought to present in simple layman's terms the latest advances in human sciences. His technique seemed vastly oversimplified to some, but others found it both charming and instructive-as when he labeled the boy on the burning deck a moron, because "he did not have the intelligence to adapt himself to a changing situation...
...drooping paint-spattered bunches, like clothes drying on a line. He had one on view in this year's Whitney Annual, has had shows at Washington's Jefferson Place Gallery and the Phillips Collection. The only hint of racial origin on the guy-roped canvases of Joe Overstreet is his use of African and, most lately, American Indian colors...
...only $25 per 1,000 pieces, v. $42 per 1,000 pieces for the U.S. mails. And it is fast. While the U.S. Post Office spaces delivery of third-class mail over several days, the independent postmen guarantee 100% delivery on the date specified by each client. Says Bill Overstreet, sales promotion manager of J.C. Penney's Tulsa stores: "A while ago, some of our advertising was delivered by the Post Office ten days before our sale was to begin, and customers started coming in expecting the bargains that were in the circulars. Now, with the Independent system...
...EDWARD OVERSTREET...
...ladies were examined from all angles-some acute. Gynecologist Edmund Overstreet speculated on the possibility that the menopause might be an ailment rather than a natural process (no non-human primate seems to experience it). Philosopher Peter Koestenbaum prescribed a stiff course of existentialism for such female problems as sexual incompatibility...