Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grabbing up his seersucker coat and panama hat, Talmadge II limped forth for his victory address, leaning on the cane he has used since his auto accident with a blonde ex-secretary in July. Then he hustled over to the Atlanta Journal to repeat his message over Station...
...Quarterly, a sort of trade journal with a small circulation, nine British pundits have just completed a long, solemn look at radio in its larger social aspects. Since the British experts strongly favor their brand of radio, the assortment of brickbats and posies they lob at the U.S. will be particularly interesting to U.S. radiomen...
Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal) will take over the sponsorship (on Mutual) of the presidential election results. Nash-Kelvinator will pay for the same show over CBS. If no angels appear at NBC and ABC, these networks will perform "a public service...
...Allen O. Gruebbel and J. M. Wisan, is the actual toothbrush used by the average U.S. family. Staff members of the American Dental Association, they examined 8,176 toothbrushes sent in* by 1,929 families all over the U.S., reported their findings last week in the A.D.A.'s Journal. Four out of five (80.7%) of the brushes were useless or actually "dangerous" (because they might irritate the gums); three-fourths of these had bent, broken or matted bristles; one-fourth were regarded as unsanitary...
...wine. Forced to drink this lively cocktail, the tippler would presumably be disgusted by all future potations. Modern doctors are still using a variation of this old cure. Latest results on a remarkably large number of patients were reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. An alcoholic is given an injection of emetine* (a nauseating drug derived from ipecac). Just before he vomits, he downs a glass of his favorite drink. After several such experiences, the patient begins to detest the taste, smell-or even sight-of liquor. Drs. Paul O'Hollaren and Frederick Lemere made...