Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisville newspaper's 40th birthday, fire-breathing, shaggy-browed Colonel "Marse Henry" Watterson penned an editorial prophecy: "The time will probably never come when the Courier-Journal will be exempt from the accusations of corrupt motives, which invariably assail it whatever it says or does...
Last week, with Marse Henry dead 24 years, his Courier-Journal was still not exempt from accusations: it was (with its afternoon sister paper, the Times) a monopoly; it was left-wing Democratic, as Marse Henry, no left-winger, never dreamed it would be. But the paper still had what Watterson had given it: the strongest, though not the most popular, journalistic voice in the South...
...when the late Paul Klee was 23 and a promising Swiss painter, he decided to start all over again. "I want to be as though newborn," he wrote in his journal, "knowing nothing about Europe...." Part of his new birth was to unlearn all the techniques he had acquired for making "acceptable" pictures...
Psychologist Oliver Lacey of Cornell University reasoned that a disordered metabolism might have predisposed the rats to jumpy nerves. In follow-up experiments, he proved it by injecting stable rats with adrenalin, which increases blood sugar. Result: all of them became susceptible to fits. Reporting in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, Lacey carefully avoided jumping to one possible conclusion: that some of the psychological maladjustments of human beings may be caused by plain faulty metabolism-in short, that unhealthy bodies cause unhealthy minds...
...most capable of a not-too-capable quintet - none of whom has the old man's dazzle - Young Bill last week kept on as publisher of the New York Journal-American and thereby became the first son to hold two important jobs at once...