Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the bane of streetwalkers and their patrons, Phthirus pubis, or the crab louse, is exhibiting upward mobility. As sexual barriers tumble, the tenacious parasites are infesting more and more middle-class youngsters. One reason, says Boston Dermatologist A. Bernard Ackerman in the New England Journal of Medicine, is that the bugs are making the scene at hippie love-ins. And it is only a short hop from the crash pad to the college crowd...
...Acceptable. At the center of the case was Robert B. Coram, 30, an aggressive and productive reporter who was fired last year by the Atlanta Journal for "unethical practice in obtaining news." His offense had been to deceive a state liquor-control officer; to get a story about nightclub raids, Coram told the officer that his superior, Revenue Commissioner Peyton Hawes, wanted him to tell all. The officer believed Coram and, without checking with Hawes, proceeded to talk...
Even though the charge of deceit against him was true, Coram contended, the Journal had no right to fire him. He and other Journal reporters had often used such tactics, and the paper had never complained. N.L.R.B. Trial Examiner James F. Foley disagreed. Although allowing that "certain deception is accepted as a means of getting a story," Foley ruled that "Coram's conduct is not acceptable as permissible conduct," and that he had indeed been guilty of unethical journalistic behavior. His dismissal was upheld...
Self-Editing. A lesser and looser work than The Master and Margarita, it reports slyly the absurd difficulties of a young writer resembling Bulgakov. Maxudov, the hero, is a staff member for a journal called the Shipping Gazette, and he writes a novel for the same reason that prisoners make their ropes out of bedsheets. He reads it to his literary friends. Awful, they say. He steals a revolver and determines to edit himself. As he is gluing his nerve together, the editor of a magazine bursts in and offers to serialize the novel (which is called Black Snow...
...wonderfully funny, but did any of it actually happen? Well, Bulgakov in the early 1920s did work for the magazine of the Railwaymen's Union and did write a novel (The White Guard), the beginning of which was serialized in the last two issues of a dying literary journal. And Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theater did stage a version of the novel in 1926. But the play, retitled The Days of the Turbins, was a success...