Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leading Soviet Union historian who spent two days here last fall has written an article in a Russian historical journal praising Harvard's work in Soviet studies...
...magazine wisely turned down. Regardless of the tone of such an advertisement--whether a reasoned statement or a scurilous attack--the Bulletin acted correctly in rejecting it. The policy which it follows of avoiding intramural controversy is a healthy one; the Alumni Bulletin correctly sees itself as a pleasant journal which lets the alumni body keep in touch with each other and with the University. To get involved in factional fights within that body of alumni would merely destroy the magazine's purpose...
...that would have taken five men half a day working with buckets and pitchforks. He was ready to indulge his hobby. He returned to his farmhouse and poured himself another cup of coffee. While it cooled, he read a story on the "farm problem" in the Wall Street Journal. Carrying his cup and a cigarette, he walked into his living room, 40 feet long and beige-carpeted wall to wall. It was dominated at the far end by a two-story pipe organ flanked by two electronic organs and a grand piano. Farmer North sat down at the console...
Winning by Phone. The Journal began to worry after it got a tip that the next prizewinner would be a chiropractor's wife. Sure enough. Mrs. Josephine Hill, a Portland chiropractor's wife, won $2,600, and finally told how she did it. Approached by a friend. Mrs. Hill agreed to have an entry submitted in her name-she did not even have to make it out. When it won. she banked $300 of the take and. as agreed, surrendered $2.300 to the friend-who turned it over to the fixer after subtracting $150 as an arranger...
...Hill was not the only fixed winner in the Journal contest. Another was Robert Alvich, 53, a hotel desk clerk. A chronic puzzle contestant. Alvich bit on an anonymous telephone caller's proposal to make him a cinch winner. Following orders, Alvich phoned Detroit, where another anonymous voice gave him the answer to the Journal's current Cashword Puzzle. Sure enough, Alvich won $2,950 and. still following instructions, wired $2,000 to one "Harry Valk'' in Detroit. Meantime, a Portland disk jockey. Fitzgerald ("Eager") Beaver, admitted that he had been similarly...