Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Senate met for the next time two days later, Wayne Morse had his reply ready. Taft made the usual motion to dispense with reading of the journal, a lengthy synopsis of the previous day's proceedings. Morse objected, insisting that the journal be read aloud. Under Senate rules, the rarely made request had to be complied with. For 26 wasted minutes the clerk read while Morse slumped in his specially built chair (it has an extra-long seat to accommodate the Morse slump). Next day, Morse "suggested the absence of a quorum," forced the Senate to adjourn...
...Milwaukee, Navy Lieut, (j.g.) Ken Wiesner broke his own indoor high-jump record by going up & over the bar at 6 ft. 9⅞ in. in the Milwaukee Journal games. Wiesner's old mark (TIME, Feb. 2): 6 ft. 9½ in. Moments later, Len Truex, onetime Ohio State runner, whipped around the track in the fastest mile of the indoor season...
...chill that runs up & down the back when sentiment is deeply stirred is "a vestigial reaction" dating back to hairy ancestors, the A.M.A. Journal told a questioning New Jersey doctor. A more primitive response is seen when the hair stands on end, but the tingle up the back, says the Journal, is the same sort of thing...
Pfeiffer directed the 1928-29 excavations at Nuzi, Iraq, conducted by the Harvard-Baghdad School. A noted Biblical scholar, he was pastor of the Methodist Church in Sanborn, N.Y., from 1916 to 1919 and editor of the Journal of Biblical Literature from 1943 to 1947. In 1950 he served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis...
Another West Coast newspaper got a new boss last week. With the death of Publisher Philip Jackson of Portland's Oregon Journal (circ. 192,249), his mother, 90-year-old Maria ("Ria") Jackson, named General Manager William W. Knight, 44, the new Journal boss. Spry, autocratic Ria Jackson, who ran the paper for years and still keeps an eye on it, also scotched rumors that Publisher Samuel I. Newhouse, owner of Portland's morning Oregonian (circ. 225,421) and nine other dailies, was going to buy the Journal. Said Mrs. Jackson: "I want Portland and all the world...