Word: sectionalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only once was he booed: at the Cleveland air races, by two large, anonymous men sitting in the spectators' section marked "Public Officials." The rest of the time he was well received. At a luncheon on his 60th birthday, the Republicans of Parkman sang "Happy Birthday, dear Bob." At Lakewood's Westlake Hotel at a gathering of 400 clubwomen, a lady soloist sang Thank God for a Garden, coming down hard on the last line: "Thank God for you." She meant the Senator, she explained...
...most likely injury is to the growth of the feet, warns Dr. Louis H. Hempelmann in a companion article. A growing section of bone (the epiphysis) is much more easily damaged by X rays than adult bone. X rays are deliberately used to stunt the growth of one leg in a child whose other leg has been shortened by disease. Hempelmann suspects that such stunting might result from the use of X-ray shoe fitters, and go undetected for years...
...flung activities. Correspondent Windsor Booth, labor reporter from our Washington bureau, and Researcher Anne Lopatin, who spent days talking to garment workers, concentrated on the union's headquarters in New York. National Affairs' A. T. Baker gathered his own first-hand impressions of the garment section and Dubinsky before he sat down to write the story. On the night that the story went to press, David Dubinsky stayed late in the I.L.G.W.U. headquarters in Manhattan to answer last-minute questions...
Kennan was indignant when State flatly and successfully opposed a Republican drive in Congress to write a $100 million Far Eastern section into the Military Assistance Program (MAP). The funds would have been at the disposal of the Administration for discretionary use against Communism in East Asia...
Next day Post readers advised young (33) Editor James A. Wechsler to take a look at his own sport section. For the benefit of criminal vermin and ordinary baseball bettors among its readers, the Post was running "Today's Pitching Form" -"official" daily gambling odds on the big-league games. In an editorial, Jimmy Wechsler lamely explained that he was just giving his readers a fielder's choice. Wrote he: "We do not believe the gambling urge would vanish if we left this arithmetical intelligence out of this newspaper . . ." The Post gets its odds from a "reliable" Jersey...