Word: tolchin
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...good reporter's nose for news is never out of the wind. One night last week New York Timesman Martin Tolchin, 37, was visiting a friend who had just had her first baby in Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. Health is Tolchin's regular Times beat, and he immediately noticed a lot of unusual hustle and bustle in the maternity ward. "I've never seen it like this before," said a passing nurse, and she ventured a reason: the great New York City power blackout had taken place nine months before, almost...
...Tolchin delightedly followed up her guess. Yes, said Mount Sinai, births were up from the daily average of eleven to an alltime high of 28. Checking other New York hospitals, Tolchin discovered the same general pattern. Bellevue reported 50% more births, Bronx Municipal 100%, St. Luke's 200% . Tolchin thereupon reported his sprightly scoop in the best deadpan manner-through the mouths of others...
Fertile Crises. Tolchin himself refrained from musing over the possible effect of the full moon on the blackout night-or whether the illegitimate birth rate had also gone up as a result of the long night spent by some in offices. With the impeccable restraint of a good Timesman, Tolchin merely hinted that many Americans apparently require crisis nights to get interested in fertility rites; he found statistics showing that the national birth rate jumped markedly nine months after Pearl Harbor and after the outbreak of the Korean War. In any case, he added, sociologists had predicted all along that...