Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humorless Cry-Baby." For a few other newspapers that carped at the Hays-Coffin findings, the Ottawa Journal had only mock-serious despair. "The trouble, apparently, is that some stroke of cruel misfortune has placed Canadians, wise, virtuous, altruistic, full of grace, all but perfect in their thoughts, acts and general conduct, alongside a people who are imperfect, who lack our wisdom, idealism, grace and near-perfect behavior, leaving us in a mess. Are we not in danger of losing all sense of proportion-becoming in the process a sort of humorless cry-baby of the Western world...
...Guilty As Heck." When Verdict began last year, it was greeted with some of the rudest critical welcomes ever given a network show. THE VERDICT is DOUBTFUL, snidery headlined the New York Journal-American. "Mockery . . . phoniness . . , guilty as heck," snapped the New York Herald Tribune. Today Verdict easily outdraws its rivals on the most hotly contested hour of the day, has consistently batted among the top half dozen of all daytime shows...
...Central Iowa Farm Business Association completed its annual report on 153 representative farms, reported net income in 1957 averaged $11,200, or 32% over 1956's $8,467 and more than 2½ "times 1955's low of $4,235. For a national view, the Farm Journal polled its regional correspondents, found business noticeably better in every section except the Southeast, where row-crop farmers have been hit by weather and acreage cuts, but livestock and poultry farmers are prospering...
...Faulkner, Dreiser, and Wylie." No one influenced his style, however. Like Topsy, it just growed. "I don't know how I got it, I just can't write any other way now. When I was sixteen, I started experimenting with words. Then I got a job on the Atlanta Journal, police reporter. It taught me to write something every day, and now I put in a nine-to-five day, except when I'm travelling." Caldwell tries to get out a book a year, but the movie has put him behind schedule. "I watched the tests of the actresses mostly...
With no descendants, Publisher William H. Eaton, 76, has long looked for the right company to buy his successful monthly, The American Home (circ. 3,259,925). Last week Eaton acknowledged that he had found his buyer: the Curtis Publishing Co. (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Holiday), which has distributed American Home for four years. For an undisclosed sum, Curtis bought Eaton's majority holdings plus the remaining stock owned by President-Editor Jean Austin...