Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week London's Marriage Guidance Clinic presented to the International Congress on Mental Health (see above), a "little Kinsey Report" based on a study of 1,000 married couples. Some of the findings : more than half had "basic sex problems"; one-fourth showed "gross sex ignorance"; only 25 had read a book of sexual instruction; almost one-third of the wives were unsatisfied sexually...
...newspaper buildup but word of mouth that sent thousands of fans and curiosity-seekers to Yankee Stadium, the "House That Ruth Built," after his widow agreed (too late for most afternoon papers to report it) that he should lie in state there. Whether 82,000 people filed past his bier, or 97,000, or 115,000, depended on which paper you read. Reporters patrolled the shuffling line to extract suitably printable comment...
...passed off the remark on a defenseless taxi driver. In St. Patrick's Cathedral, Francis Cardinal Spellman presided at a Requiem Mass (attended by 6,000), with Governor Dewey, New York's Mayor O'Dwyer and Boston's Mayor Curley as pallbearers. The press reported that 75,000 people were "in the area," which could be said of Rockefeller Center any weekday. The Daily News headlined: RUTH'S LAST GATE HIS GREATEST. The News was realistic enough to report that "hardly had the family left the cemetery when the inevitable horde of souvenir hunters broke...
Battle Stations on U.S.S. Leyte (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC Television). Action on board a U.S. aircraft carrier off the Atlantic coast: a televised report of the actual launching and receiving of planes and of offensive and defensive tactics. In case of bad weather, the show will go on at the same time Monday or Tuesday...
...read, however, as a social document, The Pleasures of the Jazz Age has the same kind of interest as a report on mating customs of ancient Egyptians. Here the reader can find such characteristic creatures of the jazz age as the hot & cold flapper ("There were two kinds of men, those you played with and those you might marry") described in the elegant, slightly elegiac prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald; the frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced...