WEDNESDAY. MAY 22. 1S63
A 3
Tom Swifties
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People Almost Everywhere Playing
Pun Game, West Says Explanatorily
By DICK WESt
Washington - OIPII - Almost
everywhere you look nowa
days you find people ex
it a n g 1 n g
"Tom Swift
ies. For the
44i benefit of the
fortunate few
who have
been kept in
the dark
about this thus
i far. I shall
isk 'riad now attempt
we to e x p 1 a i n
what "Tom Swifties" are.
A "Tom Swiftie" is a type
of pun. Its roots lie in the
Tom Swift adventure books
that boys used to read about
four decades ago.
If you recall these books,
you may remember that Tom
and his companions spoke in
adverbs. Virtually everything
tney said was said adverbally.
A typical bit of dialogue
might go something like
this:
"Don't worry, chaps, I'll
find a way out," Tom said
calmly. '
"We're with you, Tom," the
others said trustingly.
Now, if you make a quo
tation of your own and
apply iht adverb in tuch
a way that it forms a pun,
you've got a "Tom Swiftie."
For example, my wife and
I had a "Tom Swiftie" con
versation at the breakfast
table this morning. . .
"What's the mutter with
this coffee?" I asked bitterly.
"You forgot to put sugar
in it," she replied sweetly.
"It still doesn't taste right,"
I said blackly. i
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'Try putting cream in it,"
she muttered thickly.
"There's something else
wrong," I said coldly. '
"Maybe you didn't plug in
the percolator," she said heat
edly. One of our local "Tom
Swiftie" experts, Jerry Doo
little of the Washington Post,
recently compiled a list that
included:
"Where could that arrow
have landed?" he remarked
aimlessly.
An experienced "T o m
Swifties" player would im
mediately respond to that
with one of his own, like:
"It's in my back," she
screamed piercingly.
Or: "It's in my fool," he
said pointedly.
Once you get the hang
of it, you can make "Tom
Swifties" fit almost ' any
situation, such as this re
cent piece of news:
"I'm getting married
again," Gov Rockefeller an
nounced happily, '
"To whom?" asked Prince
Rainier gracefully.
Astronaut Gordon Cooper's
recent flight opened up many
avenues for "Tom Swifties"
addicts.
"Everything is A-OK," NA
SA reported initially.
President Kennedy's legisla
tive program likewise offers
a fertile field for "Tom
Swifties."
"Get busy on my tax bill,"
he told Congress cuttingly.
"But medicare was one of
my campaign promises," the
President pleaded brokenly.
If this fad follows the usu
al pattern, the next step will
be for someone to bring out
a "Tom Swifties" coloring
book.
14 Million Said
Jobless Last Year
Washington - OIPII - Labor
Secretary W. Willard Wirtz
told Congress Monday that
one fifth of the nation's work
force - 14 million persons -were
hit by the unemploy
ment problem last year.
Wirtz testified before a
Senate labor subcommittee,
studying the U.S. manpower
situation with special atten
tion tn automation and its ef
fect. He said monthly unem
ployment figures average
about 4 million, but he said
these statistics don't tell the
whole story.
Wirtz said "reliable esti
mates . . . indicate that ap
proximately 14 million men
and women were unemployed
at some time during 1962."
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Mismanagement of
Psychiatric Cases
Said Disgraceful
By DELOS SMITH
UPI Science Editor
New York -IUPIU It could be
physical illness due to exces
sive mental anxiety is increas
ing. On the other hand, it
could be that the ability of
the average doctor to recog
nize this cause of illness is in
creasing. .
Dr. A. E. Bennett, professor
of psychiatry and expert on
such illnesses, can't be sure
which has happened. But he is
sure too many physicians
without specialized psychiat
ric training still err.
"The fundamental cause has
been lack of proper psychiat
ric education in medical
schools," he said. "These er
rors are probably not as fre
quent today as they were but
mismanagement of these pa-
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go i2to doutii Kiversme
tienls is still a disgrace and
one of medicine s great weak
nesses." Bennett was talking about
excessive anxiety which re
bounds physically and sug
gests symptoms of organic dis
ease. Way back in 1936, he
looked over 100 neurotic gen
eral hospital patients, most
with "anxiety state."
Many Operations Unneeded
Of the 100. 72 hnH hopn -rl.
milted "with diagnoses of or
ganic diseases, such as gastro
intestinal disease. hvnrrlhv.
roidism. carriiar nnrl pnrnh.sl
disease and other systemic dis
eases." These 100 had under
gone 179 operations "and at
least one-half were; unneces
sary," Bennett added.
In 1946, 10 years later he
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01 150 nsvchiatrir natinnfc anH
found that over the years they
had received "496 medical
treatments for almost all or
ganic diseases. 244 Hiiruiral
procedure and 71 treatments,
often prolonged, by cultists,
quacks and others." And
what was wrong with all of
mem an along was excessive
anxiety.
He is a nrofessor nf nuvrM.
atry at the University of Cal
ifornia, Berkeley Campus, and
was lecturing general medical
practitioners on "the anxiety
of the American Academy'of
ocnerai practice. His begin
ning was an effort to arrive
at the degree of anxiety which
is normal.
"It is normal lo be con
cerned, solicitous, worried and
restless about our problems,"
he said.
"Fearful anticipation of po
tential unpleasantness is nor
mal and warns us of trouble.
This emotion is necessary lo
motivate accomplishment. Us
ually, our desire for accom
plishment further increases
the degree of normal anxiety,
Emotions Driv Humans
"These emotions gel us up
at 7 a.m., keep us on the;
job, make us meet our respon- i
sibililics and drive us to do'
our best. When we are ambi
tious, we have considerable
anxiety. We have feelings of
insecurity and lack of self-assurance
and confidence until
we reach our goals. Worry
and anxiety arc normal useful ,
emotions when we can control :
them."
But when anxiety becomes
exuessive it is "like steam un- ,
dcr pressure, and when it ex-
plodeg it may attach itself to
any situation In the patient's
life," and produce agitation i
and tension which he converts '
into pathological fears "nf
various diseases such as in
sanity, heart trouble or can
cer." That is what makes ex
cessive anxiety a booby trap
for an unwary doctor.
Psychiatry has a good rec
ord of successful Ircatmenl of
anxiety states but the mild
ones can be treated successful
ly by the average non-psychl-atric
doctor.
"Any doctor who under
stands and becomes a sympa
thetic listener can establish a
workable rapport," Bennett
continued.
"Common sense counseling
and guidance can help most
patients regain their self-control.
The main problem is
teaching the patient to become
; aware nf the emotional causes
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