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...Theatre there was only Eugene O'Neill with his 1936 Nobel Prize for work done in other years; in the Cinema only such as Robert Taylor with his 1936 profile. In Medicine there was in 1936 the Surgeon General of the U. S. Public Health Service, Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., the great syphilologist who this year got syphilis on the radio for the first time...
Strange to relate, TIME erred again. In your issue of Oct. 23 in re Surgeon General Parran's crusade against Syphilis you state that neither National or Columbia will allow the word to be used over their networks. On Aug. 25 on invitation I talked before the Montreal Rotary Club for 30 minutes about Syphilis, using the word several times. The Rotary Club received many comments from radio listeners both in U. S. and Canada. The talk was not censored before being broadcast due to Columbia's faith that Rotary would not broadcast anything offensive or objectional...
...last week some 125 newspapers of some 100 communities had mentioned "venereal disease" or "syphilis" Though the Associated Press and United Press occasionally mention this plague in their dispatches, they report that local editors generally blue-pencil it. Symbolic of the Press's hesitancy to take up the Parran crusade in full is the fact that in most states a person described in print as syphilitic can successfully sue for libel...
Last July Surgeon General Parran wrote a lengthy article called "Stamp Out Syphilis" which appeared simultaneously in The Reader's Digest and Survey Graphic. Last week the editors of The Reader's Digest bragged: "Discussion [of this article] in conversation everywhere and in the Press of the nation has brought the whole subject into the open for the first time. To date more than 1,500 organizations and individuals have ordered 276,021 reprints of the article for distribution...
...this war against a hidden enemy Dr. Parran has had long training. He joined the Public Health Service in 1917 when he was 25 and two years out of Georgetown University School of Medicine. By 1925 he was chief of the Service's division of venereal diseases. Largely because he was an expert in that field he became Health Commissioner of New York State in 1930 upon nomination of his great, good friend and backer Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Largely for the same reason he became Surgeon General last spring, upon nomination of President Roosevelt. A Roman Catholic Marylander...