Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slender, kinky-haired Igor Loiewski-Cassini, who is a grandson of a Russian count, hit Manhattan last fall like a ton of marshmallows. He signed on as "Cholly Knickerbocker" of Hearst's New York Journal-American society page, and set his sights high. What he wanted, he said, was syndication-first national, then global. He put out a highly readable, often unbearable column full of cream-puff crises and chichi. Sometimes, to angle it down Hearst's alley, he sternly lectured his readers on why broiled squab and Valentina gowns were Worth Fighting...
...Most of my work," says Bootsie, "is done in bed." There she breakfasts, reads the papers (including the Journal-American, to see, as she says, what her husband has snitched from her column), pecks out her column. In midafternoon, she starts a round of cocktail parties (her drink: orange juice) and dinners. At these gatherings she caches her notebook in the ladies' room, makes frequent trips there to jot down the items she overhears. By 1 a.m. she is back in bed. Once a week she sees her husband, "Ghighi." They meet in New York because, says Bootsie...
Chairman of the society's research committee is famed Psychologist Gardner Murphy, of Columbia University. With his backing, Miss Laura Abbott Dale, editor of the society's Journal, rounded up 54 college students, put them to work shooting dice. To rule out physical skill, she had them roll the dice four at a time, down a specially built washboard chute with 55 baffles, made each subject try for every number (from one to six) in turn. Results...
...attached to an outfit of "eight balls," chronic misfits who had sifted down to the unexacting job of guard at a P.W. camp in the U.S. Thirty percent of them should have been discharged as unfit for any kind of duty, wrote Uhler in the A.M.A. Journal. They were kept in service by the Army's evasive psychiatric procedures by which a precise diagnosis was avoided in favor of mere description and paraphrase. Results: "More than one-half million misfits carried along for an indefinite period of six months to three years [and] the perpetuation of mental disease...
...Army's top psychiatrist, Brigadier General William C. Menninger, hit the ceiling when he read Dr. Uhler's charges, retorted last week in the A.M.A. Journal that Dr. Uhler himself "lacked the capacity to adjust"-i.e., must have been an eight ball. U.S. psychiatrists got ready to debate their own claims and pretensions as well as their Army gripes...