Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Breakers Ahead. The Times, founded by Printer John Walter in 1785 to help keep his printing presses busy, in 1884 was "a stately East Indiaman of a newspaper, sailing under a still almost cloudless Victorian sky." But the glass was dropping: circulation was down to a puny 48,000. The barnacle-crusted Times was hopelessly old-fashioned for an age of steam...
...editor at Straight's request. Johnson started to trim the editorial budget from $420,000 a year to $240,000. Then Straight asked that a group of lower-bracket employees (19, said Johnson) be lopped off. Johnson countered: Why not get rid of some of the more expensive help? The list came down to half a dozen, but Johnson found himself caught in a tug-of-war between Straight and the American Newspaper Guild. Last week, when the six employees left, Edd Johnson walked out too. And faithful Bruce Bliven, who had stepped aside when Wallace came...
...sake, like most modern painting, nor are they done in a spirit of reverence, like early Greek and early Renaissance art; and they seldom vary with the individual artists-who are always medicine men. Navajo sand paintings are pure magic with one main purpose: to help heal the sick...
...doctor, the medicine man prescribes different ceremonials for different diseases. The ceremonials, lasting several days, are built around sacred chants and the making of sand pictures. The medicine man "paints" by trickling the pigments onto sand from his fist, with hairline precision; he lets the patient's family help out with the easy parts. Chanting ecstatically, the medicine man touches the pictured powers and then touches the patient, transferring a little of their strength to him. To be healed internally as well, the patient swallows a little of the painting in herb tea. Leaving a sand painting intact overnight...
Aerosporin looks good, but the final returns are not yet in. The British Ministry of Health thinks enough of it to help its discoverers with tests on typhoid fever...