Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bill Howland was speaking with a veteran's authority of 38 years in the newsgathering business (Nashville Tennessean and Banner, Atlanta Journal, Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel). A New York State Yankee by birth and a graduate of Princeton, Howland has spent his professional life in the South. His first job was on the Nashville Tennessean, and he nearly lost it when he wrote a fantasy on what the monkeys in the zoo thought of William Jennings Bryan's role in the great evolution debate. He wrote the first story on the sensational attempt to rescue...
Howland began teaching his prison classes at the suggestion of the late John R. Marsh, husband of Margaret (Gone With the Wind) Mitchell. Howland had known Novelist Mitchell as a fellow reporter on the Atlanta Journal. Before her death, she had taken a deep interest in the literary efforts of the prisoners and established a fund for annual prizes. Howland is also one of the judges for these annual Margaret Mitchell awards for creative writing...
...Smythies, 30, has moved to Canada and is working with Dr. Humphry Osmond at the Saskatchewan (mental) Hospital in Weyburn. In the Journal of Mental Science, the two doctors do some close reasoning. Mescaline, they suggest, breaks down in the body; some resulting "M substance" (chemically related to adrenalin) upsets the brain's sugar consumption and brings on split-personality hallucinations. Similarly, perhaps, stress of the type that brings on schizophrenia upsets the adrenals, and they liberate "M substance...
...A.M.A. Journal has published a full-dress report by Innerfield & Co., and the argument is on. Other researchers using similar methods have tried to duplicate Dr. Innerfield's results and have failed utterly. In fact, say some, trypsin is too dangerous to be used at all in many of the cases for which Dr. Innerfield recommends...
Died. Colonel Joseph Ingham Greene, 55, editor and general manager of the Army's unofficial trade publication, Combat Forces Journal (circ. 29,400), and its predecessor, Infantry Journal; of a heart attack; in Newark...