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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DONALD L. ROBERTSON, M.D. Modesto, Calif...
Many newsmen lifted some of their stories directly from the telescreen (see PRESS) without bothering to stir from the press lounge. After a few minutes at Convention Hall, Correspondent H. L. Mencken wrote: "I began to wilt and go blind, so the rest of my observations had to be made from a distance and through a brown beer bottle." Television showed just about everything that could be seen in Philadelphia, and a lot more than any one man could see on his own. (Example: a LIFE-NBC televiewer could watch Dewey arriving at Convention Hall, leaving the Hall, arriving...
...Experts. To help build a comic page, Editor Barnes has called in able Strippers Al (Li'l Abner) Capp and Milton (Steve Canyon) Caniff as consultants, figuring that if he can't publish their strips he can at least pick their brains. Others in the new braintrust: Editor Richard Lauterbach of '48, part-time adviser on layout and features; Lawrence Resner, who left a labor reporting job on the New York Times to be Crum's right-hand man; Managing Editor Jay Odell, a Nieman Fellow and former telegraph editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer. PM Editor...
...rest of the floor, barred from the public's view, is all but finished. It is filled with the block-long city room, where Managing Editor Edwin L. James's staff nightly assembles all the news that's fit to print. Executives sit at the south end, a full block away from some of their reporters. Turner Catledge, assistant to James, was given a pair of opera glasses by his staff to survey the farthest reaches of the room. Near by sits City Editor David Joseph, a shy, balding, quiet-spoken bachelor of 61. His public-address...
More than 20,000 cases have been reported in medical journals. In the current Connecticut State Medical Journal, Drs. Max L. Berlowe and Francis L. Herrick describe the results of 200 cases in the Grace-New Haven (Conn.) Community Hospital. Of the first 100 patients, 76% got complete relief from pain; of the second 100 patients, 96%. Only complications: headache and short periods of nausea and vomiting (possibly not due to the anesthetic). There was no dangerous lowering of blood pressure, a frequent complication in childbirth...