Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every 100 male cancer victims, ten have cancer of the prostate, but only one of the ten gets to a doctor in time for successful treatment. In the current American Journal of Surgery, Dr. Robert Gutierrez of New York suggests that this proportion may eventually be raised to eight out of ten. His method: stilbestrol is used first to reduce an advanced cancer (too far gone to be surgically removed) to smaller, more manageable size. Then, he says, the growth can be cut out and the patient may have years of useful life...
...current Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Wolfson describes a woman's tongue which had turned brownish-black; the tips of the taste buds had grown long and hairlike, and "bent like the nap of wet, heavy velvet when stroked with a tongue blade...
Married. Ward Morehouse, 50, the New York Sun's pudgy, pungent drama critic and columnist ("Broadway After Dark"); and Rebecca Franklin, 30, reporter for the Atlanta Journal; he for the fourth time; in Register...
...Thompson has been a newspaperman since he was 19 years old. He grew up in St. Thomas, N. Dak. (pop. 503), made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of North Dakota, and became editor of the weekly Foster County (N. Dak.) Independent. Later, moving to the Milwaukee Journal, he filled all the jobs from reporter through picture editor to assistant news editor...
Empty Shelves. The nation's department store sales were well below 1948 (off 11% for the week ending July 30). But some of the drop seemed to be the retailers' own fault. The Wall Street Journal took a shopping tour of 15 cities and found that many a store had cut its stocks so deeply that it could not meet the demand for some items...