Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago Daily News, Detroit Free Press, Akron Beacon Journal, Miami Herald) got word that he will be the first recipient of the La Prensa Prize for American Friendship. The award, established in 1950 by Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, Buenos Aires' exiled publisher of La Prensa, will be made in Rio de Janeiro next month to honor Publisher Knight's "courageous leadership in fighting for press freedom" throughout the Americas...
Last week, after a look at advance proofs of the Pogo strip, editors of the strongly anti-McCarthy Providence Journal decided that Cartoonist Kelly had gone too far. Said Managing Editor Michael J. Ogden: "Kelly may be heading into deep waters . . . We still intend to express our views on the editorial page, but we vastly prefer to keep those views on that page . . . We shall drop Pogo on any days when his McCarthy cast appears...
...science fiction off its rocket? Definitely, says Cleveland's Robert Plank, a psychiatric social worker, in a current medical journal. Argues Plank (in International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics): many science-fiction plots betray "schizophrenic manifestations" in the minds of their authors, who work out their fantasies by literary catharsis. Similarly, he concludes, readers release the steam from their own unconscious by reading the fantasies...
This year hog farmers finally took action. Reason: vesicular exanthem, a disease of hogs that, unlike trichinosis, is not transmissible to human beings. Reports the University of Michigan's Professor Arthur Dearth Moore in the A.M.A. Journal: "This virus disease spread in the country at wildfire rate . . . through the feeding of raw garbage. [It] not only hit the large herds of the garbage-feeders but, because of its infectiousness, quarantines were called for that [also] stopped the shipping of grain-fed swine out of many areas. That affected the farmer's pocketbook. Without hesitation, the farmers turned...
Last week, in his shabby headquarters near the Champs-Elysées, Publisher Prouvost was getting ready to reinforce his claim to the throne. He and his staff were reviving Marie-Claire, a woman's monthly something like the Ladies' Home Journal that before the war had more than a mil lion readers...