Word: reliefers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the University of Chicago group reported that of 54 patients, most got some relief: their fever and malaise disappeared, their tumors subsided, they gained weight, some went back to work. Nitrogen mustard sometimes worked after X rays had become ineffective. Best results were against incurable Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes. Although Hodgkin's is almost invariably fatal, one Chicago patient, a young commercial artist, has been kept in good working health for 33 months by periodic mustard treatments. Nitrogen mustard, the doctors warned...
...Artie Angeleno" is green-eyed Jack (short for Jacquin Leonard) Lait Jr., 3 7 -year-old son of the New York Mirror's editor. A onetime screen writer and free lancer, he went to New York last summer to help his dad do vacation relief for Walter Winchell. He was a night-shift city deskman when his bosses shifted him to society a fortnight ago, set him up with an assistant and a telephone of his own. His assignment: to treat real society in cafe-society style. Lait's maiden column, sent to the Chief on approval, came...
...Neill's idyllic quiet, which was ultimately to be destroyed by illness, was first invaded by something more sinister. By 1938 the sickening geologic slipping and faulting of world affairs had so profoundly disturbed him that he had gone stale on his cycle. By 1939 he turned, for relief, to The Iceman Cometh. By 1940, his whole scheme of work began to fall apart. His financial and personal relationships were untouched; his leisure for work was still unlimited. But some subtle, insidious things (and some brutally simple ones) destroyed the apparent perfection of his life...
Hollywood, which can explain everything, had an explanation for this, aside from the general prosperity. Twentieth Century-Fox's shrewd Darryl F. Zanuck credited 1) crowded living (from which movies provide temporary relief), 2) the newly educated audience of veterans (who got the movie habit overseas), 3) the reopening of foreign markets (which normally account for close to 35% of the industry's gross...
...Married. Major General Elwood Richard ("Pete") Quesada, 42, Army Air Forces hero who (in 1929) served as relief pilot of the plane Question Mark on its spectacular endurance flight (nearly seven days aloft), was the wartime commanding general of the Ninth Fighter Command in England, flew 86 combat missions, now heads the Tactical Air Command; and Kate Davis Pulitzer Putnam, . 29, granddaughter of the late great Publisher Joseph Pulitzer and daughter of St. Louis Post-Dispatch Publisher Joseph Pulitzer Jr.; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bar Harbor...