Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AIRLINES are five times safer (per mile of travel) than the family car or taxi, reported Planes, trade journal of the Aircraft Industries Association. In 1953, the scheduled airlines carried almost 31 million passengers more than 18 billion miles, the best safety record in history with a rate of .48 per 100 million passenger-miles. The death rate for cars and taxis: approximately 2.8 per 100 million passenger-miles...
...Eaton Jr. is now with a law firm in Boston; Kent School's George W. Overton with a firm in Chicago, and Choate School's Richard Young, son of Owen D. Young, is a well-known international lawyer and one of the editors of the American Journal of International...
...theater but to the public." Says Chapman: "I write for an audience of one-a tough one: me." Atkinson, Kerr and the Post's Richard Watts have a similar "personal" yardstick. The Mirror's Robert Coleman ("My readers consider me a ... shopper for them"), the Journal-American's John McClain ("My duty is to tell my readers whether or not a show is worth the price of a ticket") and the World-Telegram and Sun's William Hawkins ("My role is informative ... as is any good shopping service") all take a somewhat less individualistic view...
...Verdict. Has the critics' verdict over the years been right? Most theater people (when their own flops are not in question) grudgingly agree that there have been very few miscarriages of critical justice. "I try to keep in mind, even when viewing the dreariest efforts," says the Journal-American's McClain, "that the people involved are not criminals." There are times when the critics have been dead wrong, he adds, "but even an I.B.M. machine blows a gasket now and then...
This purge produced a hubbub on the Catholic intellectual left that for a while drowned out the clamor over the worker-priests themselves. One Catholic review hinted that "the influence of Cardinal Spellman and his friend McCarthy" was responsible. In another Catholic journal, a priest wrote that "we are not obliged to believe that Rome's decisions are made out of pure and lofty motives." Gaullist Senator Edmond Michelet demanded that Foreign Minister Georges Bidault "call the attention of the Holy See to the regrettable consequences which our country's prestige might suffer throughout the world...