Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Radcliffe Institute, Robert J. Kiely, Professor of English and Master of Adams House, Richard E. Neustadt, Professor of Government, and James C. Thomson Jr., lecturer on General Education and Curator of the Nieman Fellowships will assist journalists from the WashingtonPost, the Chicago Tribune and The Louisville Courier-Journal in choosing the 39th annual group of fellows...
...absorption of the alcohol into the bloodstream, they began taking blood samples from the subjects once every 30 minutes over a three-hour period. The tests invariably showed that the rates at which ethanol disappeared from subjects' bloodstreams did not differ by race. Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, the researchers conclude that there is no significant difference in the way Indians and whites get (or don't get) stewed...
...York publishing insider, Korda had little trouble launching his book and getting it reviewed. Ringer had a harder time. When ten publishers turned down Intimidation, Ringer published it himself and sold it by mail, with screaming ads in the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers. Ringer spent well over $100,000 on the ads and intimidated some bookstores into placing their own ads by proposing to give rivals exclusive sales rights in their territories. When Intimidation caught on, Ringer had Funk & Wagnalls take over the distribution of his book. This was O.K. with Ringer's agent Henry Rearden...
Died. Eliezer ("Lou") Shainmark, 75, ingenious Hearst newspaper editor; after a long illness; in The Bronx. While night editor of the New York Journal-American in 1934, Shainmark suggested comparing handwriting samples of Suspect Bruno Richard Hauptmann with ransom notes of the kidnaper of Charles Lindbergh's slain 20-month-old son. The result was the first concrete evidence against Hauptmann, who was later convicted, and a triumph for Shainmark...
Elusive Evidence. There was an immediate reaction to the pictures and an accompanying article published in a recent issue of the respected scientific journal Nature. Some scientists were convinced that the pictures proved the existence of a large creature in the lake...