Word: joans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks on the picket line at Scripps-Howard's New York World-Telegram & Sun, Reporter Joan Gahan, 24, had worn out three pairs of shoes. Last week, as she has done since the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild's strike began at the third biggest evening newspaper in the U.S. (circ. 612,468), Newshen Gahan took her two-hour daily turn. As the pickets ambled in circles at the newspaper's three entrances, some worked puzzles, read papers, or played "20 Questions...
...Scab!" went up as a nonstriking editorial or business staffer darted into the dark, gloomy recesses of the W-T & S. A picket dangled a SCAB sign over a nonstriker while a photographer snapped him for the strikers' daily, two-page Guild Telegram & Sun. After their stint, Joan and some other pickets fanned out to cover their regular W-T & S beats for the strikers' 15-minute daily "radio newspaper," Seven Star Final, on three New York stations five nights a week. Once a week, strikers dropped into headquarters, in a doll factory, to collect benefits...
Hollywood Theater (Thurs. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Short Story, starring Joan Bennett...
Pediatrician Herbert Click decided last February that the best thing to do with Joan was have her catch the measles. He took her to visit a measly six-year-old, and the children played together for an hour. But stubborn nature refused to take its course, and Joan missed the measles. In March, under careful medical supervision Joan was exposed to a second measles case. Once again, nothing happened...
Several weeks ago, when Dr. Click was casting about for other ways of treating Joan's nephrosis, Joan's cousin, four-year-old Kenneth Anderson, came over for a visit. A few days later Kenneth was in bed with the measles. Soon after, the welcome rash appeared on Joan...