Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rash of interviews with psychologists, psychiatrists, jewelers, bomb experts, handwriting experts, cops, scientists. Columnists discoursed learnedly on the psychopathic makeup of the man who so desperately wanted recognition, speculated on everything from his childhood to his sex drives (either weak or strong, depending on the columnist). Hearst's Journal-American thoughtfully provided a do-it-yourself spread on how to make a pipe-bomb; Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Sun gave an artist's rendering of the Bomber's face (details for which were somehow set forth by a handwriting expert...
...thing to do was to cut out the diseased and apparently useless organ as fast as possible. In the last dozen years, many have wondered whether antibiotics might do the job as well as the scalpel, but few have dared to take a chance. In the British Medical Journal, Surgeon Eric Coldrey reports that, in three years at Rotherham Hospital in Yorkshire, he has taken this chance in 137 cases of acute appendicitis and has lost only one patient (a feeble man of 78, who succumbed to pneumonia...
...exports flowed into the fast-growing Latin American market at a near-record rate in 1956, Manhattan's Journal of Commerce reported last week. As the Journal figured it, the final 1956 total for U.S. sales to the 20 Latin American republics will run to about $3.7 billion-a hefty 12% above the 1955 mark, and only $20 million or so below the alltime peak reached during the Korean war year of 1951. The U.S.'s five biggest Latin American customers in 1956: Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Colombia and Brazil, in that order...
...quality. Yet it tells of real events that happened when young London, at 16, shipped on a sealer to the islands. After three years of kicking about the Pacific, he returned to the U.S. and, thirsting for knowledge, enrolled as a freshman at Oakland High School. The student literary journal, Aegis, published his Bonin Islands story, and its stay-at-home readers must have been awed by his breezy voice of experience ("Ah! Life was life then!"). In short order, Student London took off for the Klondike and packed 8,000 Ibs. across the Chilkoot Pass. This weight included...
...prisoner in his house. A "No Visitors" sign in the driveway kept away bothersome humans, and Stuart turned gratefully to new friends: the three-legged 'possum who lived beneath the kitchen, the pewees nesting by the kitchen door, the baby-handed mole tunneling under the yard. His journal of recovery is alive with the awareness of a man who has found time not only to live life but to examine it, and though most of his conclusions are venerable platitudes, they are stated with all the force and convic tion of newly minted truth...