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...Bureau usually have heard of it by word-of-month, and come to the Massachusetts Avenue office to present their problems and receive advice. Two of the more interesting cases, however, came through the mails from a man serving a life sentence and from a woman in an insane asylum...
...week two shiploads of military (wounded) and civilian (interned) German prisoners were held up at Newhaven as rumors flew thick & fast that scheduled sailings had been delayed because Adolf Hitler demanded the return of Rudolf Hess, who went A.W.O.L., so that he could clap him into a Nazi insane asylum...
Once the seamstress saw Lincoln bend gently over his wife, take her by the arm and lead her to the window. "Pointing to the battlements of the Insane Asylum . . ." he said, "Mother, do you see that large white building on the hill yonder? Try and control your grief, or it will drive you mad, and we may have to send you there." And all the while, "like a drug for her tortured nerves, she indulged in her orgies of buying things . . . things she could never use, for which she could never hope to pay." In four months she bought...
...type of education they should receive. Those who are lagging in social tests, for example, should be sent to special kindergartens as soon as possible. Most important requirement for full flowering of personality, say the doctors, is a happy home. Life in an orphan asylum, no matter how well equipped, retards even the brightest children. For every infant needs to be the center of his own private universe...
...Kennedy of Cornell: "Hess may have set out for the Duke of Hamilton because he thought a duke could do what Churchill could not-bring about peace. The Germans are such awful snobs. [Hess's flight] was merely a return to normality . . . a desire to escape from the asylum [Germany] in which he has so long been confined. . . . . His activities must be considered as those of a perfectly sane man." > Dr. Gregory Zilboorg of Manhattan: "Hess may have a megalomanic-paranoiac trend. Hess's profound devotion to Hitler over so many years was semi-pathologic...