You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life

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He wrote: “Do not believe the reports of the glamorous life of an alcoholic. I would not trade my best day drinking for my worst day sober. We were so different. Stalin was his hero. He would say ‘purge the bastards’ and had a five-year plan for his career.” In November 1933 “The Evansville Press” of Indiana published an article about Mrs. Frank Churchill (formerly Carolyn Kay Shafer) who was the personal secretary of Walt Disney. She credited Disney with a comical instance about the workplace:¹⁰ It is, we suppose, one of those slightly quaint British phrases that in some way tries to infer that the office in question is a frantic, fast and terribly exciting place to work, fuelled by crazy (as in fun) people and exacting deadlines. The general rule however seems to be the more mundane and sedate the office, the more likely you are to see the sign. Go figure, as the Americans say.Jul: Mr. Allison also admits that one doesn’t have to be crazy to write columns, but that it helps. (Attributed to Albert Allison)

Jun: You don’t have to be crazy to play this on a saxophone, but it helps a lot. (Crossword clue in “Judge” magazine) The combination of creative pressures, personality flaws and the gallons of alcohol consumed during the legendary lunchtime sessions in the haunts around Shepherds Bush all took their toll on the team.In September 1921 The Omaha Daily Bee of Omaha, Nebraska printed a short article which credited a local person with an instance referring to golf:⁴ When Alan blew the whistle on his writing career, Ray wrote with Johnny Speight, who had a different approach. Johnny would never examine his work, he would never rewrite. But Spike did so obsessively.”