charge by Nazis in 1938 after disrespect to Hitler . . . Winchell sez: Recently deceased world-famed author left grant in will to blackmailer who threatened to reveal "sins of kin"... Note daring treatment of unusual love triangle in James Dean's REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. . . Judge Walter Stump of Auburn, Indiana, committed man charged with sodomy to state institution, until cured Kinsey in Norway, studying "more realistic" sex laws . . Post Office often bans obscenity. Now they hit comic failing to deliver hot stuff as

advertised. . . DAILY VARIETY notes new fad among showbiz males, in evidence at Friars' tribute to Sammy Davis, Jr.: greeting not with handshake, but with kiss. . . Bennett Cerf in Sat. Review quoted designer of spicy desk blotters as saying many pics of "scantily draped hussies" are drawn partly from male models. "Men generally have thinner ankles, better shape at the calves, and far trimmer thighs than women, with just the lines makers of calendars and blotters crave on their products." Cited legs of several male movie stars as proof . . .

University undertakes

mental health research

A special appropriation of $175,000 by the State Legislature has enabled the University to establish a Mental Health Research Institute, whose staff will "seek explanations and causes" in the general field of mental health rather than methods of treating specific emotional diseases.

The new Institute adds another facility to the University's tremendous resources for work in the field of human behavior. At the end of the summer, allocation of a grant of $220,250 from the Ford Foundation to the University for a half-dozen studies in the behavioral sciences was announced. Soon to be opened is the new Children's Psychiatric Hospital, which will, of course, be a highly specialized

treatment center.

Purpose of the Mental Health Institute, however, is to discover general theories and laws governing human behavior. It is headed by Dr. James G. Miller, a psychiatrist and former chairman of the University of Chicago Department of Psychology.

The new research unit will be a part of the University's Neuropsychiatric Institute, and will use research efforts by physicians, biologists, and social scientists as well as psychiatrists and psychologists.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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