Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such deluded racists as the New York Times.'''' A widely distributed series of cartoons in the Nashville Banner derided "Mixiecrats" and "Bleeding Hearts," pictured the North's "objective liberal press" as burying delinquency stories on the obituary pages. When newsmen such as the Atlanta Journal's Managing Editor William Ray tried conscientiously to dig deeper by demanding a racial breakdown of the 644 students expelled from New York schools as troublemakers, they ran afoul of school regulations that forbid such identification...
Next day one of the Culver staff saw a news story about a "hospital bum" who could bring up blood at will. The story was based on an article in the A.M.A. Journal by Iowa City's Dr. John S. Chapman describing a galloping case of the "Munchausen syndrome"* (TIME, March 5, 1951) and warning hospitals against this itinerant who, strangely, always used the same name. Hospital Superintendent Ralph Haas phoned Iowa City to ask Dr. Chapman the man's name. "Leo Lamphere," was the reply. Soon, into Lamphere's room marched two deputy sheriffs with...
After Lamphere's escape from Iowa City, Dr. Chapman stayed on his trail. But even after publication of the Journal article, Lamphere managed to get in two luxurious weeks at Baltimore's famed Johns Hopkins Hospital before he moved on to Indiana and was recognized. State hospitals had previously refused to keep him because they are for residents, and he claimed to be a resident of New York. But last week Lamphere agreed in court to undergo psychiatric examination, was shipped off to the state hospital at Westville, Ind. Psychiatrists hope to keep Lamphere in the maximum-security...
Household Goods. In Milwaukee, a for-sale ad in the Journal read: "Washer; wringer; new encyclopedia; shotgun; wedding dress...
Design for Living. In Knoxville, Tenn., an employment ad in the Journal read: "Young married couple desires young lady to stay in home as companion to wife. Prefer one who sings Hillbilly songs...