Word: journals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edgaar B. Wilson, Jr. Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, will study at Queens College, Oxford University. Edward H. Chamberlin, Professor of Economics and editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, will go to Science Economique Appiquee, Paris...
Betty Lou Amster is the only woman police reporter Louisville has ever had. After breaking into journalism on an Indiana newspaper, Mrs. Amster landed on the Louisville Times (circ. 167,607) five years ago, made good on the police and courthouse beats. She was later moved to general assignments, especially sob-sister stories, and became dissatisfied with her job and herself. At 24, Betty Lou felt that she had "run out of learning," because, married at 16, she had never gone beyond high school. Last month, Reporter Amster buttonholed Publisher Mark Ethridge (who also runs the Louisville Courier-Journal...
...seven years as a sportwriter on the New York Journal-American, Hearstling Jeane Hoffman has covered everything from a frog-jumping contest to the World Series and the Belmont Stakes. ("I'm so tall," she says, "I have to interview jockeys sitting down.") In between, hard-boiled Reporter Hoffman found time to toss off some sport features for the Gazette. In naming her executive editor, Publisher Harold H. Roswell gave her orders to try to recapture the Gazette's bygone glories as the "sportsmen's bible...
Before the year is out, almost every man, woman & child in the U.S. will have had at least one cold. The cost (in doctors' fees, drugs and lost wages) will top $1 billion. In a progress report on man's fight against the common cold, the current Journal of the American Medical Association glumly reports: no progress...
...Said a Journal consultant, ignoring recent enthusiastic claims for anti-histaminics*nothing has been found to prevent or cure colds. This goes for salves, nose drops, gargles, vaccines and every other nostrum. All that the victim can do is try to get some relief. For a stuffy nose, drops are helpful (though sometimes they boomerang and cause renewed stuffiness). Aspirin soothes headache, fever and muscle pains which go with a cold. Alcohol, the Journal concedes, "in reasonable doses," expands the blood vessels and restores circulation to chilled skin and mucous membrane. But the old standby, rest in bed, is still...