Word: wassermanns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands of owners who were reluctant to part with them even on a temporary basis. Many were fragile and falling apart, and the pages had to be separated in order to be photographed-a project requiring all the delicate art of the bookbinder. "It took almost a negative Wassermann test just to see the magazines," says Editorial Consultant David McDowell. But under persistent prodding, the owners eventually let them go-in exchange for a new volume of reprints. Even so, Whit Burnett, editor of Story, insured his copy of the first issue for $570 and kept calling up Kraus...
...famed Wassermann test for syphilis and others like it take about two hours or more, and all require more laboratory equipment than can be toted into a backwoods area. At the Washington meetings, the U.S. Public Health Service...
...dough but in life. The Journal, which once opposed woman suffrage, broke out in passionate campaigns for purity in politics as well as in maternity wards. It crusaded against venereal disease (a famous Journal ad showed a pretty girl with the caption "Of course I'll take a Wassermann"), hotly recommended flogging for child beaters...