Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal: on their payroll, Tom would spend his mornings as a subject of medical study, his afternoons as a handyman around the laboratory. Peppery about his right of privacy, Tom made the doctors promise not to publish his last name anywhere, or a recognizable picture outside a medical journal...
...hospital patient who complains that the water in his bedside carafe is not fit to drink is usually right, reports the New England Journal of Medicine. In fact, the stuff could kill him. It was patients' complaints that set a team of Harvard University physicians and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital bacteriologists to checking bedside water in 24 of Boston's nongovernment hospitals. What they found was far worse than they had feared...
Died. Seymour Berkson, 53, publisher (since 1955) of the New York Journal-American, longtime (1945-55) vice president and general manager of the International News Service; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
Walter Kerr (Herald Tribune) thought it "a sober and handsome monument... enormously impressive." Richard Watts (Post) called it "a fine drama" with "stunning performances," and John Chapman (Daily News) wrote, "A magnificent production of a truly splendid play." John McLain (Journal-American) went so far as to say, "The best play of this or many seasons... reaches heights of poetry and performance seldom attempted in the recent history of the American stage." John Mason Brown '23 did this one better by exclaiming, "Never such greatness in the theatre--not since Mourning Becomes Electra, Green Pastures or Our Town...
...artery disease, Drs. Jeremy N. Morriss and Margaret D. Crawford of Britain's Medical Research Council persuaded 206 hospitals to report on post-mortem examinations of the hearts and coronary arteries of 5,000 men, regardless of the cause of death. The findings, reported in the British Medical Journal, show that heart disease occurs in inverse ratio to the heaviness of work. Large, healed scars in the heart muscle-evidence of a long-ago heart attack-were three times commoner in light workers (schoolteachers, bus drivers, clerks) than in heavy workers (boilermakers, dock laborers, coal hewers). Most striking, such...