Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert N. McMurry, disputes between labor and management are not so much social or political problems as psychological conflicts. Psychologist McMurry, a Freud disciple with a Vienna Ph.D., gets $125 an hour for giving advice on labor relations to companies manufacturing everything from automobiles to candy bars. Last week, after ten years' work with 180,000 employees of 127 companies, he summed up his findings: "Management has failed to be the kindly protective father, so the union has become the caressing mother who gets things from that stinker of a father...
Looking backward last week over the progress of medicine in the first half of the 20th Century, both the Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal found reasons for cheering. But on one point they differed sharply. Said the A.M.A. Journal: "Operations formerly undreamed of are now everyday occurrences." On the contrary, said British Surgeon Geoffrey Jefferson: "There is not much that we do today that surgeons were not doing [in 1900]; we do things better and more often . . . We have new aids that they were denied"-such as wound-healing drugs and better anesthetics...
...Last week, swallowing national pride, the Grand Guignol was modernizing with a shocker based on a trashy British novel about U.S. gangsters, Rene Raymond's No Orchids for Miss Blandish. For the benefit of patriots, Mme. Berkson explained: "It's just that we're bringing the tradition up to date...
...Last week, five trustees led by Thomas J. Watson, chairman of International Business Machines Corp., met with Hutchison. Together they reconsidered the gift, rejected it outright. Said Watson: "It isn't a matter of dollars & cents, but of the principles of Lafayette. We wouldn't sell those principles...
...place and another, 31-year-old Headmaster Eric Johnson* of the Friends' Central School in Philadelphia had known many a badly behaved parent-the selfish, the complaining, the foolish. But there were some parents he and his teachers thought were wonderful. Last week, in his own Parents' Bulletin, he told what sort they were...