Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adele, a journalism major, slipped in a little practical experience with the Nevada State-Journal and the United Press; nights, she worked as a roulette dealer at Harold's, and later at the Palace, the Bonanza and the Nevada Clubs. She liked the Nevada best: "They took a great deal of pride in my going to college." In the clubs, Adele always wore her wedding ring ("Some people think they should get the dealer if they lose their money"). She made $15 to $25 a night...
...that doesn't come from worms, wool that doesn't come from sheep, and man-made skin and hair that doesn't grow on humans can now be produced by a process announced by Robert B. Woodward, associate professor of chemistry, this week in the current issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society...
Down with All Quacks! The Journal lost its first suit, which was filed by the makers of Wine of Cardui, a herb-and-alcohol mixture advertised as a cure for "any sort of female trouble," but widely sold to men who drank it straight). The A.M.A. considered the loss (if damages) a great moral victory. Soon afterward, when Fishbein became editor, he was encouraged to begin beating the bushes. Some of the odd game he flushed: a healer named Percival Lemon Clark, who attacked all diseases with a "sanatology blower" that was supposed to "dry clean the entire [internal] system...
Press & public are used to regarding Parliament's business as their own, but Parliament took its time in letting them in on it. For centuries it published no journal; coffee-house gossip spread the news of its debates. When a newsletter writer "presumed ... to take notice of the proceedings of the House" in 1694, he was summoned to the bar, forced to kneel and admit his offense. Not until 1803, in Luke Hansard's day, were reporters given seats of their own in the gallery, instead of having to rub elbows with other "strangers...
Surprisingly, few of the businessmen who expected a general recession in business expected their own business to fall off. This optimism caused The Wall Street Journal to observe: "The . . . recession has the exact characteristics of the standard two-headed calf. As everyone knows, that animal is always in the next county, never in this one. ... A mild recession that dispels the boom psychology will be a welcome guest...