Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survey, conducted by Carl C. Seltzer for the Department of Hygiene and recently published in the Journal of Psychology, is based primarily on studies of the Classes of 1943 and 1944. In these classes, the report states, "Students admitted from public schools presented markedly superior academic performances in the Freshman year than those admitted from private schools...
Born on a South Dakota ranch, beefy Bill Williams played on two college football teams (Wisconsin and Centre College, Danville, Ky.). He had been a Burns detective, a Yellowstone guide, and city editor of the Minneapolis Journal before he joined Fawcett in 1941. He was put to work editing Mechanix Illustrated, ran its circulation up from 216,000 to 440,000. Then he was handed True and told to make it a "general magazine for men." He tossed out the horror tales, switched to slick paper, went hunting for good writers (C. S. Forester, Budd Schulberg, Lucian Cary) and began...
...current Journal of Psychology, a report by Harvard Psychologist Gordon Allport and James M. Gillespie analyzes the religious beliefs of 500 Harvard and Radcliffe students...
...women give themselves for $2 or less, had become a vastly profitable industry. The Rexall Drug chain had its own kit. So did Montgomery Ward & Co. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. was about to bring one out. Wailed a Boston beauty-shop owner to a Watt Street Journal reporter: "Don't talk to me about those things; I've lost half my customers already and unless we do something I'll lose the rest...
Divorced. William Randolph Hearst Jr., 41, most capable of the five not-so-capable Hearst boys, and publisher of the New York Journal-American; by second wife Lorelle McCarver Swisher Moore Hearst, 39, his onetime women's editor, a onetime Follies girl; after 15 years of marriage, no children; in Gooding, Idaho...