Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woodrow Wilson internationalist. Joe, the sixth of seven children, was born in Crookston, Minn., in 1905. Joe played football at high school, worked as a farmhand and went to Antioch College. He topped off his education at the University of Minnesota and got a job on the Minneapolis Journal as a $15-a-week reporter...
...upended the assistant managing editor and spanked him. They especially remember Joe rushing up with one ham-hand raised, a revolutionist's look in his eye, to strike a blow against authority. He met and married bustling Betty Robbins, who was a $15-a-week librarian in the Journal morgue. They quit the paper and Joe went freelancing...
These puzzling findings were reported in the Journal of the American Dental Association by four researchers who have been trying to find out why teeth go bad. Does a substandard diet prevent decay? Perhaps it does. The Birmingham men would not say, but they were sure that underfeeding does not cause decay...
...poet . . . full of sentiment, music and meaning, warmth of human observation and comment, and vast sorrowfulness." Bud Kissel of the Columbus Citizen disputed: "A competent cast that never muffed a line nor missed a cue wasted their talents on an unimportant play." But Mary McGavran of the Ohio State Journal called the play "beautiful in its very ugliness." And William F. McDermott of the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote: "A harsh, powerful play ... It contains some of the best and most touching writing of the greatest American playwright...
Gunning, who does business as Readable News Reports, has helped 30 U.S. dailies stop talking over their readers' heads. He urges them to try for the spoken-language level, where radio has operated for years. Among his clients: the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Washington Star, United Press. His prize customer: the Wall Street Journal, which he says puts out "the most readable front page in the country" by shunning the technical jargon of the Street...