Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GRAHAM PATTERSON Publisher Farm Journal Philadelphia...
Despite the high frequency of heart attacks, U.S. physicians still do not know just how often they occur, or with what results. In last week's A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Paul Dudley White appealed to all his colleagues to send him data of two kinds: 1) How many patients with acute coronary thrombosis did each physician treat in the 30-day period beginning Sept. 24, when the President had his attack? Details wanted include patient's sex and age, occupation, national origin, and whether the attack proved fatal in the first 24 hours or in one of the following...
...opinion of one of the students that 'Once a class gets bigger than fifty it may as well be a thousand.'" Although the student they interviewed probably has a lot of common sense in most matters, it is questionable how versed he is in problems of teaching. Most educational journal articles and educational texts on the subject disagree; dozens of university faculty members who have been interviewed since the report was published are united in literally laughing at this particular "common sense opinion," no matter what their feelings about other aspects of the expansion problem...
...Downs. But the thriving Journal never grudges the time and expense needed to get the news, e.g., 30 reporters were assigned to this week's Page One leader on the steel shortage. The Journal's biggest local staff (about 90 newsmen) is still in Manhattan, but some 160 staffers work out of bureaus in 17 other U.S. and Canadian cities, bringing the Journal a lot closer to Main than Wall Street. Says President Kilgore: "If we ever get rid of the ups and downs of business, it will be because people now are reading much more about...
...from-secret weapon is to write her enemies-and friends-into her books. Despite her demurrers, the game of "spot-the-model" goes on. Experts in this game can tell that Taub in The Oasis is really the editor of a certain highbrow magazine; another highbrow editor (his journal is now defunct) won his McCarthy Purple Heart as Macdougal Macdermott in the same book, but both remain good and gallant friends of their satirist...