Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was not much more which Pollster Roper could report about the presidential race. Said he: "My silence [in the future] on this point can be construed as an indication that Mr. Dewey is still so clearly ahead that we might just as well get ready to listen to his Inaugural...
...Largely Ritualistic." Roper was so sure of his prediction* that he was not even planning to report his running campaign forecast. Said he: "This is not a hare and tortoise race, and neither is it a race between two closely matched thoroughbreds ; it is a very ordinary horse race -a race in which one horse already has a commanding lead . . . My whole inclination is to predict the election of Thomas E. Dewey by a heavy margin and devote my time and efforts to other things...
...imaginative treatment for alcoholics: a live eel in a cup of wine. Forced to drink this lively cocktail, the tippler would presumably be disgusted by all future potations. Modern doctors are still using a variation of this old cure. Latest results on a remarkably large number of patients were reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. An alcoholic is given an injection of emetine* (a nauseating drug derived from ipecac). Just before he vomits, he downs a glass of his favorite drink. After several such experiences, the patient begins to detest the taste, smell-or even sight...
...body gets 20% to 40% of all its energy by burning up fat. But scientists have not known exactly how-or where-the body burns its fat-fuel. Last week a young (31) University of Chicago biochemist named Albert Lehninger reported a solution of the puzzle. His report at the American Chemical Society's meeting in Washington (see SCIENCE) won him the $1,000 Paul-Lewis Laboratories Award...
...same time, they underestimated his capacity. Reports of large Japanese ship movements southward against Indo-China and Malaya convinced them that the Hawaiian Islands were safe for the time being. But they had many warnings to the contrary. Lay readers may be fascinated by such details as the CINCPAC intelligence officer's report of Dec. 1, in which it was noted that the call letters of four Japanese carriers had vanished from Japanese radio "traffic." The inference is that those carriers were at sea under radio silence, on their way to strike somewhere -as indeed they were...