Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Names make news." Last week these names made this news...
...forced down in Wales (TIME, Sept. 14). On the return trip he cracked up in Newfoundland, got embroiled in a tawdry, name-calling squabble with Richman, to whom he no longer speaks (TIME, Sept. 28). Back on his regular run for Eastern Air Lines, Dick Merrill next made news by wrapping his ship around a mountain, miraculously without injury to his eight passengers (TIME, Dec. 28 et seq.). Last week. Pilot Merrill finally got into the headlines with news of a more successful sort...
Next month Urologist John Archibald Campbell Colston of Johns Hopkins is to tell the convention of the American Medical Association a sensational piece of medical news: that he cures acute gonorrhea in four days with 40? worth of Prontylin. Prontylin is a new drug which cures many cases of blood poisoning (TIME, Dec. 28). Learning of Dr. Colston's forthcoming report and keenly aware of the nation's lively interest in the social disease which infects 2,000,000 U. S. men and women a year (twice as many as syphilis does), which is responsible for an inestimaable...
Picture-conscious in a big way since its Wirephoto service was founded in 1935, the Associated Press hopefully submitted many a print to the second annual National News-Photo Contest run by Editor & Publisher, newsmen's trade weekly. Last week the magazine's judges announced the winners: first, John Lindsay for Working on the Levee, a rhythmic frieze of Negro convicts toting sandbags in February's flood; second, James Keen for Lowland Madonna, another flood scene of a young refugee nursing her baby; third, Edward O'Haire for J. P. Morgan Listens, a shot taken...
...Publisher suddenly remembered that the Ohio-Mississippi flood occurred this year, not last, and that the contest had been limited to 1936 pictures. Apologizing handsomely, Editor & Publisher moved J. P. Morgan Listens up into first place and named two others for second and third. These were: second, an International News Photo re-enacted shot, by the New York Mirror's William Stahl, of a policeman blowing into a smothered infant's mouth third, a corpse being lowered from a burning building, taken by Dan Lane of the Atlanta Georgian-American...