Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Contrary to a report in the London Evening Standard that the play was to be banned in Boston, Jerome Kilty '50, reports that the doubtful scene has been tailored to conform with local regulations...
Maids & Mistresses. "We're just like the Old Testament," Lord Riddell used to tell his critics. "We report crime and punishment." His kind of reporting paid off: News of the World now goes to seven of England's eleven million homes-usually by the back door. Lady Rothermere calls it the "kitchen paper of England." Indispensable to scullery-maids, it frequently finds its surreptitious way to their mistresses upstairs...
...from a 1912 enrollment of 52 (and a $100,000 deficit) into a thriving academy that picks & chooses its lucky girls. Stephens has had such attractions as 75-year-old Maude (Peter Pan) Adams as a dramatics teacher. Talent scouts-who are called "admissions counselors"-give prospects the onceover, report (among other things) on their "comeliness" and home-town popularity. Stephens prefers not to waste its makeup, clothing and budget clinics, its courses in nutrition and home management, on the hopelessly homely or the misfits...
...Corey report met with praise, and with some apprehension. Professor Arthur T. Jersild of Teachers College liked the report's "emphasis on . . . [the] many kinds of ability. . . . An I.Q. of 200 is useless if it is fettered by archaic habits of thought." But he raised a point which had already bothered the committee, "the hazards to the individual of being singled out as an outstandingly able person," and added a personal misgiving: "whether a roster of elite human beings . . . is wholesome and wise from a democratic point of view...
Tracked to the Grave. The two Russians studied microscopic tracks of free silver which mesons had made on photographic films (probably exposed at high altitudes, where cosmic ray effects are strongest). Their authorized, translated report is far from clear, but apparently they found what they were looking for in the sensitive emulsion: groups of short lines arranged like a star or a chicken-track. Each of these, they said, was an X which marked the spot where a negative meson had murdered an atomic nucleus...