Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mention of magazine articles on maternity stirred A. M. A. obstetricians to angry outbursts. Indignantly recalled was the fact that U. S. mothers first heard of twilight sleep through the enterprise of McClwe's Magazine in June 1914.* Now running in Ladies' Home Journal is a series of blatantly emotional articles called "Why Should Mothers Die?" by Bacteriologist Paul de Kruif. Cried Kansas City's Dr. Buford Garvin Hamilton last week: "American obstetrics seems to be becoming a competitive practice to please American women in accordance with what they read in lay magazines...
After an abdominal operation gas generally forms in the intestines, balloons the abdomen, causes the patient excruciating agony for many hours. How to prevent such postoperative gas pains was the subject of two articles by surgeons in last week's American Journal of Surgery...
...Catholic Holy Name Society's Holy Name Journal appeared a blast at Mrs. Thomas Norvel Hepburn, birth control advocate and mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn. What provoked this sheet to impolite language was Mrs. Hepburn's recent statement that "birth control makes it possible for young people to get married and save up and have children when they really want them. ... It makes parentage a glorious fulfillment of their hopes instead of an accident of Nature...
...JOURNAL OF A YOUNG MAN-Martin Delaney-Vanguard ($2.50). Case study of poverty-ridden Greenwich Villagers in the pre-New Deal era, set down by a sensitive young Irishman who strives to maintain his integrity while Catholicism, Communism and a self-centred blonde struggle for his soul...
HARPOONER - Robert Ferguson - University of Pennsylvania Press ($2.50). Journal of an unassuming Scottish-U. S. seaman, who calmly recorded his day-today experiences on a four-year whaling expedition in the 1880's. An adept at understatement, Diarist Ferguson conveys the impression that despite the extreme hazards of his profession, the harpooner's lot was not an unhappy...