Word: journalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This horrifying case, proving that drug-addicted mothers produce drug-addicted babies, was reported last week by Dr. Meyer A. Perlstein of Chicago in the American Medical Association Journal. Said the doctor: "Separation from the maternal circulation shuts off the supply of drug to the newborn. . . ." If not treated, the baby may die of convulsions within a.week. Dr. Perlstein used a standard treatment for drug addiction-sedatives. Tapered off the phenobarbital after eight weeks, his baby patient emerged safely from its morphine...
...LIEBLING, but the city editor always went in & out the back way, and never saw it. Eventually Liebling landed a job on the World anyway, just before the paper folded. In the next four years he wrote more than 750 feature stories for the World-Telegram and New York Journal, made a mad miscellany of friends: curators of tropical fish, kept women, bail bondsmen, wrestlers' pressagents, horse dockers, female psychiatrists. The last thing he was told about the newspaper business before he left it was a Hearst executive's dictum: "The public is interested in just three things...
Dartmouth had kicked him out for cutting chapel too often. He later found that the Columbia School of Journalism "had all the intellectual status of a training school for future employees of the A. & P." The "colorless, odorless and tasteless" Times fired Liebling from its copydesk for identifying an unidentified basketball referee as "Ignoto" ("unknown" in Italian). He quit his next job on the Providence Journal when the publisher fired a reporter to make room for the son of a local bigshot. (Liebling dedicates his book "to the foundation of a school for publishers, failing which, no school of journalism...
...treading the dead body of a mouse into the floor of its cage." Liebling often rags the Chicago Tribune and Bertie McCormick, but wonders if it "isn't like punching the heavy bag. The Colonel is in the direct line of Dickens' Colonel Diver of the Rowdy Journal and of Elijah Pogram, who 'Defied the world, sir-defied the world in general to compete with our country upon any hook; and devellop'd our resources for making war upon the universal airth...
George Fox was once offered a captaincy in Cromwell's army. "I told them," he wrote in his Journal, "I knew from whence all wars arose, even from the lust, according to James's doctrine; and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars...