Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smut Station. One result, testified lanky (6 ft. 4 in.) Howard Rushmore, 45, onetime Daily Worker movie critic, onetime New York Journal-American Redhunter and onetime (until October 1955) Confidential editor, was that "newspaper friends of mine" who had freelanced for the magazine were dropped by Harrison or scared off by his demands for "hot, inside material." Among the reporters named on the stand by Rushmore (but not in Los Angeles press accounts of the trial) was United Press Hollywood Reporter Aline Mosby, who was replaced in the press gallery (for reasons of "illness") after a defense attorney declared that...
Every time medical researchers announce a new theory about the causes of atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries by fatty deposits) and the resulting susceptibility to heart attacks and strokes, anxious laymen rush to their doctors to ask, "What should I do?" Last week, in its journal Circulation (circ. 8,000), the American Heart Association took note of the situation with a 16-page report by its nutrition committee...
Type Casting. Off the bottle at last and on the Examiner rewrite desk, the old pro was a candidate for city editor of Hearst's No. 3 paper (after the New York Mirror, New York Journal-American) within a year. Department heads protested in unison against promoting "that old s.o.b.," but the Examiner's Publisher George Young pronounced: "It's Richardson. That's what that job down there needs...
...Joseph) A. Livingston, whose syndicated, thrice-weekly column is carried by some 60 other dailies, attracts a broad cross section of readers with straight-from-the-shoulder reporting that acknowledges no sacred cows. Leslie Gould, daily columnist (50 papers) and financial editor for Hearst's New York Journal-American, writes about his subject as if he were covering the police beat, breaks some crockery but also breaks frequent exposés of crooked stock promoters and unscrupulous company raiders, and does a good job as well of more routine business reporting. Many smaller papers have developed one-industry specialists...
...Minnesota psychiatrists last week set forth a startling and controversial theory of sex deviations. Its net: many outwardly respectable American homes may, more or less inadvertently, "seduce" children into becoming sexual deviates. The two psychiatrists, who published their theory in the A.M.A. Journal: Dr. Adelaide M. Johnson, 52, professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. David B. Robinson, 33, of the Mayo Clinic. They put the blame for deviations squarely and almost exclusively on the parents-who in turn must have been warped by their own parents...