Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anyone who has had to look into the eager, happy faces of anxious relatives and patients who have just read that streptomycin is practically a sure cure for tuberculosis, explain as gently as possible that the wonder drug has its limitations and is unsuitable for their particular sufferer, and watch hope change into sickening despair, can attest to the damage done by overenthusiastic writing on such topics...
...THEATER, with the new revue Small Wonder (see THEATER) suggests that democracy should be sold to Europe as soap is peddled to the U.S. Sample radio commercials read by Comedian Tom Ewell: "Hello Europe-this is America. Ladies, does your government look different lately? Are your borders in disorder? Well, join the swing to Democracy. And remember,Victor Kravchenko has switched to Democracy because Democracy is milder ... Try the brand of government Rita Hayworth uses! And then they'll say about you . . . she's lovely, she's engaging, she votes...
...Small Wonder (produced by George Nichols III) is a pleasantly wobbly little revue whose good moments don't come quite often enough. When it turns into a satiric shooting gallery, Small Wonder is frequently very lively fun. But when it takes to warbling ready-made love ditties, or to being briskly, blatantly youthful, it is as much of a trial as an error...
...Know the Score." Negro Publisher Davis Lee of the Newark weekly Telegram (circ. 110,000) found a Negro's life below the Mason-Dixon line more tolerable than north of it. In an editorial he wrote: "When I am in Virginia or North Carolina I don't wonder if I will be served if I walk into a white restaurant. I know the score. However, I have walked into several right here in New Jersey . . . and have been refused service . . . New Jersey today boasts of more civil rights legislation than any other state in the union...
...past month, newspapers have referred excitedly to phenosulfazole as a new "wonder drug." Because of the new drug, said the brightly colored reports, children who otherwise might have been crippled for life are walking normally. Columbia University, which is testing the drug, recently advised editors that all such stories were "premature, unauthorized . . . unjustified . . . cruel...