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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. George Francis Johnson, 91, co-founder and chairman of the board of the vast Endicott Johnson (shoe) Corp.; in Endicott, N.Y. An ex-shoemaker's apprentice who made good, Johnson spent most of his fortune on the welfare of his workers (his slogan: "a man who dies rich dies disgraced...
...drug looked like a good bet for alcoholics. Other anti-worm medicines (e.g., the common cleaning fluid carbon tetrachloride) are sometimes fatally poisonous when mixed with alcohol. During the past year, two of Dr. Jacobsen's associates have treated 500 alcoholics with the drug; they called it "antabus" (from anti-abuse). By last week 450 of the patients still had a loathing for alcohol after only one dose of antabus...
...Daily News, the late Captain Joe Patterson, demanded that his headline hunters make their heads "understandable, applicable and bright." The man who keeps them that way is tall (6 ft. 3 in.), red-mustached William Bernard Murphy, 53, copydesk chief. A paper like the Daily News is only as good as its copy desk, and the desk is as good as its chief, who must combine speed, accuracy, zeal, bad temper, and a quick eye on guard for double meanings...
...over the copy desk on a temporary basis." The "temporary" basis became permanent; Murphy likes it-and the pay of more than $10,000 a year-well enough to turn down better jobs. Recently, when he lost an eye, he thought he might have to change; but his one good eye is still enough to oversee the output of his 14 "rim men." They are all experts at trimming and polishing copy, as well as heading it up. They are not hampered by the shibboleths of most copy desks (Newsmen may end heads with prepositions). The News copydeskers are well...
...fought against governors and utilities, and for equal (but separate) opportunities for Negroes. He hates monopoly journalism; the Gazette once bought the rival Democrat, but Heiskell soon got them divorced. He likes to tell fellow Southern publishers that if they don't spend money to get good editorial pages, they shouldn't blame their readers for not reading them. His own editorials (which he reads aloud to make sure they can stand it) get read. All through the 1948 campaign, the Gazette dad-blamed the Dixiecrats, stuck with Truman, "advised" voters to do the same. Arkansas...