Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Law Journal, a weekly published since September, views itself as "the Wall Street Journal of law" according to Publisher James A. Finkelstein, 30. Son of New York Law Journal Publisher Jerry Finkelstein. James has so far more than 25.000 subscribers (at $48 a year) and is shooting for 100.000. N.L.J. 's Page One is given over to readable, anecdotal stories of broad interest (a profile of Paper Chase Author John J. Osborn Jr.. an examination of nepotism in small law firms, a report on the lawyer boom in Atlantic City). Inside are more dryly technical columns...
...best tradition of damnum absque injuria, American Lawyer's first issue twits the National Law Journal for omitting Harcourt Brace's legal seminars from its calendar of events, and Legal Times' Feb. 5 issue faults Takeover Specialist Joseph Flom, who is chairman of the Journal's board of editors, for collecting retainers "for doing nothing." Says former Federal Trade Commission Executive Director Basil Mezines, a Washington lawyer who reads them: "I just love these gossip sheets−as long as they don't write about...
...drug each day. By the end of that period, the acne had vanished in nine patients. The skin of four others cleared two to ten months later. Even in the one "uncured" case, there was a 75% improvement. Better yet, write Peck and his colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, side effects were minimal and temporary: some chapped lips, skin dryness, minor nosebleeds and slight irritation of the eyes...
Before the scientific world could even begin to digest these assertions, the journal published still another communique from the young patent examiner. Einstein had devised an equation that accounted for Brownian motion, the random, zigzagging movements of microscopic particles within liquids (named after the Scottish botanist Robert Brown, who first observed it in 1827). Einstein suggested that the specks were being jostled by molecules in the liquid, an idea that finally convinced many early 20th century skeptics of the atomic nature...
...book bristles with engaging, sometimes horrific lore about the ordeal of West Point, circa 1968, its codes and disciplines. His description of Beast Barracks, the two sum mer months before plebe year that turn oafish high school graduates into passable cadets, has the ring of first-rate journal ism. Truscott possesses a subversively accurate ear for the intonations of officers...