Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About ten years ago, Drs. Roy D. McClure and Frank W. Hartman of Detroit's Ford Hospital began experimenting with a photoelectric cell technique first developed in Germany. Later they were joined by Physiologist Vivian Gould Behrmann. Together the experimenters worked out an instrument which gives an almost instantaneous record of the amount of oxygen in the blood...
Pistol Packer. Last week Gould got his first real taste of the agrarian democrats' medicine-Chinese Communist staffers locked him in his office until midnight after he rejected their wage demands. Next day, when he wrote a story about the row, the workers refused to print the Post unless he dropped his "distorted" account and stopped "helping the bandit Chiang resist the People's Revolution." That convinced Gould that he could "no longer run an American newspaper in the American tradition," and he suspended the Post indefinitely...
...bought two struggling sheets and merged them, the Evening Post and Mercury had been a lively landmark of the foreign community (at its peak, the Post sold 15,000 copies of its English edition, 200,000 of its Chinese edition Ta Mei Wan Pao). As early as 1932 Editor Gould warned against Japanese aggression and, when a made-in-Japan puppet Chinese regime took over Shanghai, the Post was bombed and ten Chinese staffers were assassinated; Editor
...Gould learned to pack a pistol, and never to sit with his back to the door...
Dancing Taught. When Pearl Harbor came, Gould was in the U.S. The Japanese shanghaied his paper, publishing a Rising Sun house organ under the familiar masthead. To counteract its propaganda effect, Publisher Starr and Editor Gould opened up shop in New York and flew the weekly edition to Free China for distribution. Barely a month after V-J day, Gould was back in his old Shanghai shop feeding the dwindled foreign community the old familiar diet of gossipy chitchat, straight news, Li'l Abner, Joe Palooka and Dorothy Dix. Soon he was squabbling with Nationalist censors. When one killed...