Word: bulletin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most doctors scoff when patients turn to quacks or unorthodox practitioners. Instead of scoffing, Dr. Beatrix Cobb, research psychologist at Houston's M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, determined to find out why patients do it. The people she questioned, reports Dr. Cobb in the current Psychiatric Bulletin, divided roughly into four groups...
Died. Joseph Rider Farrington. 56, since 1942 Hawaii's delegate to Congress and chief proponent of Hawaiian statehood, president and publisher of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin; of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Atlantic City, N.J. last week, Richard W. Slocum, executive vice president of the Philadelphia Bulletin and president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, stepped up before 1,000 newspaper production men and said sternly: "The day of easy money [for newspapers] is gone . . . Some newspapers have shrunk, and more have died than we like to talk about. More will shrink and die if we do not meet our present-day problems." Publisher Slocum was gloomy about the newspaper business with reason. All over the U.S., rising costs have squeezed profit margins of newspaper publishers to the lowest point in years...
...Amnesty. Editor Isaacs was joined last week by Editor & Publisher. Looking over the Providence Journal-Bulletin's expose of newsmen working part-time for the state and for New England race tracks (TIME, April 6 et seq.), E. & P. said: "We suggest that every editor and publisher declare a period of amnesty for their employees for 30 days, during which they be requested to voluntarily and confidentially reveal any outside employment. There would be no punishment or retaliation for past indiscretions. And if management found that such work in no way conflicted with the reporter's duties...
...Hosman, who has been training church ushers for about ten years, told an interdenominational meeting of church ushers in Memphis, Tenn. that "ushers can louse up the service or make it more worshipful." No good usher, said Hosman, uses strong after-shave lotion, wets his thumb when handing out bulletins, or grasps a lady around the waist or by the arm in showing her to her pew. Expert Hosman's advice on how to get people to sit up front: don't give out the bulletin right away, but use it as "bait" to lure back-pew addicts...