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Catalogue of Characteristics. Well, then, said Dr. Binger, Chambers suffered from a "psychopathic personality," a recognized disease and duly entered, he believed, on page 601 of the Mental Hygiene Laws of New York. A victim of the disease, said Dr. Binger, "always plays a role . . . must act as if the situation were true though it is true only in his imagination...
...time, he was working with Columbia's late Psychologist Edward L. Thorndike, who had done quite a bit of counting himself. By combing through thousands of pages of English, Thorndike had picked out the 10,000 words most frequently used. His Teacher's Word Book revolutionized the writing of English textbooks for children and foreigners. In one book for Spaniards, Thorndike and Lorge found, the author had included such rarities as caterpillar, snail, and cocoon in Lesson Five. In a text for Italians, wrench, bellows, tongs, and plumbline appeared on Page 10. One textbook started out waving...
...first sign of peace came three weeks ago when RCA Victor announced that its new 1950 radio-phonograph console models would include an attachment for the 33⅓-r.p.m. long-playing records developed by Columbia. This week, in full-page ads, RCA President Frank M. Folsom announced that Victor would start making "a new and improved" LP record...
...Page One banner in the New York Daily News screamed: HUNT RED GOON IN UAW BOMBING. Inside, in a four-column, copyrighted exclusive, Reporter Jack Tur-cott put the finger on a mysterious assassin who was the "nation's No. i suspect" in the attempted dynamiting of Walter Reuther's union headquarters in Detroit (TIME, Jan. 2). Police in 48 states, wrote Turcott, were hunting one Paul F. Kassay, described by the News as a "Moscow-trained saboteur" and a "Communist fanatic . . . and avowed party hatchet man" who has been "at large" since another sabotage attempt...
Three days later, after getting the facts, the News reversed its hasty judgment. In a page 2 retraction, under a two-column headline, the newspaper reported that Kassay had proved to the News's satisfaction that he had been "many hundreds of miles away" when the bombing attempt (and two previous assaults on Walter and Victor Reuther) took place. Furthermore, said the News, Kassay had never been in hiding, had lived in the same house for ten years, had passed a security check for World War II defense work, denied that he ever had been a Communist...