Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Pleasures." Rhode Island-born Marian Chace grew up in Washington after her newsman father switched from the Providence Journal to the Washington Star. She once studied with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, has taught dancing all her adult life. In the mid-'30s Washington psychiatrists began sending her children who were having difficulty in school or at home. In 1942, after she had had some success, Dr. Overholser invited her to work at St. Elizabeths as the first U.S. dance therapist. At that time, most psychiatrists felt that it was impossible to work in groups with acute...
...England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Bradford Cannon, Judson G. Randolph and Joseph E. Murray of Boston report that "patients continue to appear with permanent tissue destruction that has resulted from relatively recent radiation treatment of acne, plantar wart, eczema [and] superfluous hair." Examining 165 such cases from their personal files and the records of Massachusetts General Hospital, the doctors starkly document the dangers of unnecessary exposure to irradiation. Items...
...distant kin to the late Frank Gannett, who ran a bigger chain-currently 20 papers in four states. Guy's papers: the Portland Press-Herald, Express and Sunday Telegram, the Waterville Sentinel, and the Kennebec Journal in Augusta. Combined circulation...
White entered the field of investment counseling with a firm in Boston after completing his studies at the University. Presently, he is senior partner with Scudder, Stevens & Clark, a director of the Wall Street Journal, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and a trustee of Norwich University in Vermont...
...article in the British journal Nature this month, Dr. Williams described his success in extracting from human tissue a hormone that controls metamorphosis of insects. When applied to caterpillars of this hormone prevents their becoming butterflies. "Unfortunate publicity," according to Dr. Williams, has apparently deluded hundreds of the nation's oldsters into taking the chemical for what the New York Times calls "a biological Joshua commanding the biological sun to stand still...