Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight, his health cracked at 44, Joe Connolly called it quits and resigned. To replace him, in came Gortatowsky. Gorty had started 33 years ago as an unpaid cub on the Atlanta Constitution. When Hearst's King Features summoned him 22 years later he was the Constitution's managing editor. He moved steadily up through the complicated Hearst hierarchy, seemed to have reached a blind alley when he became chronic assistant general manager. But last week he had moved up again...
...rank experts to rate the tests, Rutgers to publish their ratings (The 1938 Mental Measurements Yearbook-Rutgers University Press; $3). To some tests, notably Louis Thurstone's famed intelligence test for college freshmen (American Council on Education Psychological Examination), the experts gave a clean bill of health, high ratings. Elsewhere they turned up many a prize absurdity. Samples...
...proved the plan, discussed it with four sympathetic colleagues-among them Dr. Channing Frothingham, former president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and Dr. Robert L. De Normandie, head of the Society's Ethics Committee. Last week Dr. Cabot and his friends announced the birth of their new "Health Service, Inc."-a group plan for all Boston residents who earn less than $3,500 a year...
...been suffering for some time from a throat ailment which, he believes, was caused by 55 hours of uninterrupted emergency work during the hurricane of September, 1938. Careful nursing has brought his health back to the point where a measure of hoarseness is all that's wrong with him, and even this will be gone, he expects, by springtime, when he will have to use his voice to utter stentorian "break...
...sleep. Dr. Rathbone found that the patient was 30, unmarried, that her fiance had lost his job, that she had been financially ruined by the Depression, that she had recently broken a leg. Dr. Rathbone's (and her patient's) conclusion: "Must overcome tenseness to regain health...