Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the death of longtime Publisher Fred A. Sapp. The paper was sold (for $750,000) to the late Leslie Small, son of Illinois' longtime scandal-tainted Republican Governor (1921-29) Lennington Small, and his sons, Len and Burrell, who also publish the nearby Kankakee Journal (circ. 24,960). Since the new publishers frowned on controversial stories and insisted that all editorials on local topics be cleared with the business office, Herb Hames buttoned his typewriter on local issues. But last November, after radio station WCMY's Newscaster Ron Wilson reported that trustees of Ottawa's mismanaged...
Plain aspirin is just as good as the more expensive buffered variety. This conclusion, which will be a surprise to many physicians as well as lay viewers of TV commercials, was reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine by two independent medical investigators after new-studies...
Died. Robert Daniels Levitt, 47, longtime (1931-55) Hearst syndicate reporter, columnist (New York Journal) and publisher (The American Weekly), onetime (1941-52) husband of Musicomedienne Ethel Merman; by his own hand (barbiturates); in East Hampton...
Should the U.S. scrap its farm support program and "get clear out of farming"? In December, Farm Journal (circ.3,400,000) put the question to its readers, this week reported an amazing finding: half the farmers say yes. The tally for the first 4,000 farmers responding...
...press, which abounds in advice to readers on their physical, mental and marital symptoms, spurned their dental troubles until 1956 when a young (32), crew-cut Cincinnati dentist named Peter Garvin decided to fill the cavity. Three months after its first appearance in Columbus' Ohio State Journal (circ. 80,834), Dentist Garvin's column (title: "Your Teeth") was picked up by General Features Corp. and offered to newspapers across...