Word: hazardously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since he revved up Hot Rod (on a low-octane stake of $400), onetime Pressagent Petersen has also striven earnestly to eliminate hell-for-leather jalopy jockeys as a highway hazard, helped start up the National Hot Rod Association (headed by Hot Rod's Editor WalIy Parks) to herd drivers into some 700 "drag strips" that are now specifically set aside around the country for 130-m.p.h. hot-rod competitions (TIME, Aug. 2 9) 1955). Last week Publisher Petersen sat down with his editors to plan an even more ambitious safety project. In the belief that highway deaths...
Occupational Hazard. In Winnipeg, when police asked the occupation of Benjamin Monette, convicted of driving his car with faulty brakes, broken speedometer, defective lights and a clutch held together with a rubber band, he answered: "I'm a mechanic...
Spread Thin. A few who have known him for years think that Murrow has grown vain and pompous-an impression that his style also induces in some of his audience. Vanity is an occupational hazard that a performer has to watch as a woman watches her weight. Living in a swirl of hero worship, Murrow is obliged to recall the Murrow-Ain't-God Club. He smokes too much (three packs of Camels a day), is still gnawed by nerves before every broadcast; even in the air-conditioned studio, doing his radio show, he drips sweat and jiggles...
...roar of the blast furnace or the power play in the executive suite. There is room on the bestseller list for a socio-economic study-The Organization Man, Judd Saxon, a comic strip based on business, runs in 160 newspapers. Yet, as Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. Vice President Leland Hazard complained last week: "The daily press just doesn't seem to be set up to look in depth into business problems...
...uproar underscored one of TV's growing headaches: it is constantly caught in the middle by the slings and arrows of outraged viewers-individuals and organized groups. This is an occupational hazard long familiar to Hollywood, which learned how sensitive all kinds of minorities can be to slurs, real or imagined. An avalanche of mail (NBC alone gets 3,000,000 letters a year) has convinced network executives that TV, because it shares the privacy of the viewer's home, seems to give offense and draw abuse even more readily...