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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patient has "that old tired feelin','' he said, the doctor might turn up some soft gallstones, a slightly low basal metabolism rate or a few intestinal parasites. But the doctor should remember that things like that cannot cause the great fatigue the patient complains about. The commonest cause of abnormal weariness, he said, is a "nervous breakdown," a term that may include neurosis or psychosis. A lot of operations could be avoided, Alvarez thinks, if the doctor asked his patient a simple three-word question: "Are you happy?" The answer might give the clue to an unhappy...
...commonest adjustment to a mixed marriage, says Leiffer, is for one or both of the partners to stop taking an interest in church. "Of the 444 men who were involved in a Roman Catholic-Protestant marriage, no no longer had even a nominal connection with their old church and 124 had not attended church for a year. Of the 449 wives involved in such marriages ... 60 claimed no church affiliation and 91 had not attended church for a year." Usually it is the husband who sacrifices his religion on the altar of marital concord. Typical, reports Leiffer, is an interview...
Most of his baseball patients are pitchers. To keep pace with improved batting techniques, pitchers throw an assortment of forkballs, knuckle balls, screwballs and sliders. "Try it yourself and feel the strain on your elbow," says Dr. Hyland. His commonest operation-removing calcium deposits from elbows-made new men of Pitchers Howie Pollet and Red Munger. The list of patients who have consulted him would make an impressive line-up for an All-Star game. Among them: Ty Cobb (one of his steadiest customers), Frank Frisch, Rogers Hornsby, Joe Cronin, Mel Ott, Bobby Doerr...
...important point about radio to scholarly Mary Agnes Hamilton is the fact that it has "ended isolation. A sense of loneliness, of inhabiting an alien universe ... is the commonest cause of personal misery. It is now being lifted." BBC's often-criticized newscasts, she thinks, are not so bad: "Americans, of course, constantly assail our news service as dull. It is meant, in a sense, to be dull. Anyone who wants it ... lively should listen for a spell to [American] news commentators and 'analysts,' each striving to be more arresting, more dramatic, more charged with a sense...
...human animal prides himself on using his head, but he pays a terrible penalty in headaches. Headaches are one of man's commonest and most persistent ailments. One of the worst forms-migraine -is a sick headache that recurs at regular intervals. Symptoms may include dark spots before the eyes, vomiting, lack of feeling in hands and legs. The trouble is, say the experts, people who least deserve migraine headaches are most apt to get them...