Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another potential fatality is Hearst's tabloid morning Mirror, which, despite the second highest daily circulation in the U.S. (851,928), is famishing for want of advertising income. The strike presents Hearst with a convenient excuse for folding the Mirror into its New York afternoon paper, the Journal-American...
Shattered. How long New York's news drought would endure depended on the staying powers of the opposing sides. At the Journal-American, Publisher J. Kingsbury Smith was desperate to toss in the towel. "I am proposing here and now," he said, "that President Kennedy or Governor Rockefeller, or New York's Mayor Wagner, or all three, issue a public appeal to the striking workers to agree to a 60-day truce in the strike." Except for this querulous broadside, both sides seemed grimly set on a showdown. "I think it only fair to state." said Amory Bradford...
...concession to Newhouse, the Long Island Press was permitted to go on printing in outlying Suffolk and Nassau counties. Unaffected by the strike: the Wall Street Journal, which regards itself as a national paper, and is not a member of the Publishers Association...
...moved to cram the kids with pills. If a little of the stuff is good-so the reasoning runs-a lot must be better. Not so, says Orthopedic Surgeon Charles N. Pease; parents should pay more heed to warnings about the possible dangers from vitamin overdosage. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Pease cites specific examples of damage done by too much vitamin A: it has stunted children's growth or left one leg two to three inches shorter than the other...
Dermatologists at Kaiser Foundation Hospital discovered that both mother and son had been infected with a microbe that is close kin to the bacillus of tuberculosis. Theirs were the first reported cases, say Dr. Sheldon Swift and Harold Cohen in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which a fish tank served as the incubator. The germ, undiscovered until the early 1950s, had previously been found nourishing only in swimming pools. There it has caused several outbreaks of what has usually been called simply sore elbow...