Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...save a man's life. When this discovery was first announced five years ago-by Drs. Lyman W. Grossman and Frederick M. Allen of New York City-many a medico was shocked. But the two doctors persisted in their chilling experiments. Last week they reported progress in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
...Calvinism's stern faith on its way back-as a reaction against the emotional confusions of war, inflation and the atomic age? Sure of it, Professor Clarence Bouma, of Michigan's Calvin Seminary, writes in the current Journal of Religion...
Died. Kenneth Craven Hogate, 49, hefty Hoosier publisher of the Wall Street Journal, president of Barren's Publishing Co., chairman of Dow, Jones & Co., Inc. (financial ticker service), close friend and 1944 presidential campaign adviser of Thomas E. Dewey; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palm Springs, Calif...
...Journal of Comparative Psychology, Drs. J. C. R. Licklider and M. E. Bunch describe a revealing experiment on rats (which are very like people in many ways). The problem was to find out how rats react to losing sleep. Rats ordinarily sleep 12 to 15 hours a day. When really sleepy, they will bed down on anything. Bright lights and loud noises do not stop them from trying...
...says Lena." "Somebody Loses." The characters in Chet Shafer's guileless anthology are seldom the local boys who made good. Some of his Rotarian fellow townsmen, who dislike his stuff because it makes Three Rivers out to be the queen of hick towns, have on occasion asked the Journal to throw him out. Chet dislikes them just as much. Says he: "Rotary ruins little towns like this. Gives them big-town ideas. Commerce! Progress! Whenever there's progress, somebody loses." Most of his characters come from the pinochle-playing crowd that hangs out in the back room...