Word: molner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just about every medical specialty but do-it -yourself surgery. Hundreds more, such as the New York Time's Dr. Howark A Rusk a practicing authority on rehabilitation of the handicapped, confined their practice to the home-town paper. Readers response can be impressive. Dr. Joseph G Molner, who writes for 383 U.S and Canadian papers, gets up to 100,000 letters a month. After Montreal French-language La Presse, which carries Dr. Brady in translation, dropped him tor a week, the managing editor "heard from almost every old-age pensioner in the Dominion...
Early last November when Detroit's evening News bought out the Hearst chain's ailing Detroit Times (TIME, Nov. 21), one of the most valuable properties that changed hands was genial, chubby-faced Dr. Joseph G. Molner, 53. Though his column appears in 217 U.S. dailies, Dr. Molner's question-and-answer "To Your Good Health" is biggest in his home town, where it is a favorite court of appeal for health bugs. Last week, to the rage of the News and the embarrassment of Dr. Molner, his medical advice was also enhancing the circulation...
...Free Press's larceny was perfectly legal. A month ago, enviously watching the News pick up the lion's share of the defunct Times's circulation, Free Press Managing Editor Frank Angelo was suddenly reminded of the fact that, besides writing his column, Dr. Molner is health commissioner of Detroit and surrounding Wayne County. Angelo sent a reporter around to the doctor with a list of 20 questions (sample: "Does donating blood do a fat person any good?") and asked that the doctor answer them in his official capacity. Unhappily concluding that "as a public servant...
...mind. "I'm not disturbed," said News Managing Editor Harvey Patton. "They're just jealous, and it's good promotion for our column." But last week, encouraged by the reader response to its new "column," the Free Press decided to go right on promoting Dr. Molner with his reluctant cooperation. Sending him another list of "public health" questions, the paper also assigned a reporter to crib more free Molner medical lore from the doctor's regular appearances on Detroit TV station WJBK and Detroit radio station...