Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranks of public officials on record against the dangers of heavy cigarette smoking won a noted recruit in New York's Health Commissioner Herman E. Hilleboe. Granting there is no proof that smoking is the only cause of lung cancer, Dr. Hilleboe declared that several recent studies "give irrefutable evidence that the long-range effects of cigarette smoking are harmful for many people...
Says a Manhattan housewife who won nearly $1,500 in a four-day appearance: ''Each morning, before the show goes on, each contestant sees a producer. He says something like 'Well, what will we talk about today? Who holds the record for home runs? You know-Babe Ruth.' Then he'll say: 'How would you recognize David Niven?' Sure enough, when the dots fill in, there's David Niven...
...victim of galloping nascence," whose speeches in one year would "constitute a bridge of platitudes sufficient to reach from the Herald Tribune's editorial rooms to the cold caverns of the moon." But to approving readers of her three-a-week column of political analysis, "On the Record" (147 papers), durable Dorothy Thompson was a snappish combination of Cassandra and Joan of Arc, the first and finest of political newshens...
Last week Dorothy Thompson went off the record. The time had come, she wrote in a farewell column, for her to "relive my life" in preparation for her ninth and most ambitious book: an autobiography that would also be a personal history of her war-torn times...
...suggestion of Mrs. Ogden Reid, vice president of the New York Herald Tribune, she started "On the Record," the next year began a monthly chitchat for the Ladies' Home Journal. By World War II, she was read across the U.S. (peak circulation: some 200 papers in 1941), feared in Government circles...