Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vitamin B 1 has a special affinity for and healing action upon diseased nerve tissue, and its efficacy in treating nerve inflammation associated with alcoholism is spectacular (TIME, Jan. 17). In the A. M. A. Journal last week Dr. George R. Cowgill of Yale declared that the vitamin seemed to help in the metabolism of carbohydrates by acting as a coenzyme. Other than that it seemed to have no effect on normal organs, and overdoses did not hurt a normal body. The human system simply took what it needed and threw away the rest...
...American Journal of Surgery last week he reported that he had treated dozens of diseases with spinal B, injections, including duodenal ulcers, tuberculosis, inoperable cancer, cardiac decompensation, uremia, anuria, tabes dorsales, multiple sclerosis. These were not all cured by any means, especially in the cancer cases, but in all cases there was a diminution of pain, the patients looked and felt better, and in some instances there was a rejuvenating effect which Dr. Stern attributed to the vitamin. His most touching case was an elderly woman who was almost pathologically addicted to sweets and had von Recklinghausen's disease...
...never very surprised at the shenanigans of a Chicagoan. But Dick Whitney was a Morgan broker. He was the President of the New York Stock Exchange for five years. ''The terrible thing about the Whitney scandal.'' wrote Financial Editor Leslie Gould of the New York Journal & American, "is . . . that the broker was the White Knight of the financial district. Whitney was Sir Richard when he went into battle in shining armor against the 1929 crash and again when he stood up and defied Washington and the reformers. Now it turns out that this Great White Knight...
HELEN KELLER'S JOURNAL - Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). A rebuke to self-pitiers is this diary of 57-year-old Helen Keller in the dark days that followed the death (in 1936) of her lifelong companion and famed teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy. Last fortnight Helen Keller undertook her biggest job, a campaign to raise $2,000,000 for the American Foundation for the Blind...
...first twelve years the Saturday Review of Literature, under Editor Henry Seidel Canby, got its reputation as a conservative, conscientious literary journal. Its sober book reviews were coupled somewhat incongruously with the playfully erudite, wambling columns of Christopher Morley, its mildly suggestive personal ads with a weekly puzzle. The leading national book-review weekly, its eminence was made less impressive by the fact that it was the only one in the field. Although now & then the Saturday Review took a flyer in an extended literary appraisal, with articles by Critic John Chamberlain, H. L. Mencken, Van Wyck Brooks...