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Hypnosis has been a hard-luck kid among medical techniques. A century ago, it was just beginning to win acceptance as a painkiller when ether anesthesia was discovered and hypnosis was discarded. It was making a comeback 60 years ago when Freud hit upon the idea of psychoanalysis, and the experts again lost interest in hypnosis. Now, the third time around, it is once more winning the support of reputable men in both the physical and psychic areas of medicine. To help put hypnosis over the top for good, eleven doctors have assembled the first comprehensive textbook in the field...
...pants in the family. Master of Ceremonies Bob Hope, bowing to the cathode ray by wearing a blue dress shirt with his dinner jacket, cracked: "With Oscar 25 years old, it's high time he got married. While it's true he has a child bride, the kid is loaded. In fact, the bride's father is picking up the tab." (The show cost the Radio Corp. of America...
Many a man, when he cannot recall a name that he knows perfectly well, shrugs it off with "getting forgetful," or even "Freudian, no doubt. Must be the name of some guy who was mean to me when I was a kid." This is right most of the time. But every now & then, doctors have a case in which a patient has no memory for names at all-not even the names of close kin. It may get so bad that he forgets the names of common articles, so that when he wants a pen he will ask for "something...
...most remarkable thing about this remarkable progress in everything from toasters to atomic energy is that it is bossed by a man who is neither physicist, engineer nor production expert. Price is still so innocent of mechanical lore that friends kid him about the time his car stalled in Pittsburgh's rush-hour traffic. Mrs. Price had to lift the hood and get it started, because Price didn't know how to work the jammed automatic choke. But what unscientific President Price demonstrates is that management is a science of its own, and that, in a mass-production...
Gunsmoke (Universal-International) casts Audie Murphy as a sort of Dead End kid on horseback-a hired gunslinger who is fast with the girls and fast on the draw. When he threatens pretty Susan Cabot with a pistol, she says: "You can put your gun away. I'm not dangerous." Says Audie: "You could be. You've got the right equipment...