Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...There is no scientific support," the council concluded, "for the contention that BCG should be extended to all persons with the same assurance that can be recommended for smallpox vaccine or other immunizing agents. At present [its] general use . . . does not appear to be warranted and should not be encouraged...
Particles of Voices. Some of Murrow & Friendly's effects were fairly routine: the railing voices of Communist China's General Wu and Russia's Vishinsky contrasted with the country-lawyer diction of U.S. Delegate Warren Austin. But others achieved a vivid reality, e.g., the flat, unemotional American voices recorded in a command post against the background of artillery fire, and the bitter comment of a wounded marine. There was deep sonority in Carl Sandburg's recital of his The People, Yes. Says Friendly: "One of the nation's troubles is that there's been...
Make Your Mistakes. Murrow handles the front-page news and the editorial interpretations. But Hear It Now also has oral "columns" and features. Red Barber talks on sports (Pittsburgh's General Manager Branch Rickey urged the nation to keep its morale high with baseball); drama is covered by Comic Abe Burrows (he didn't like the Broadway revue Bless You All-see THEATER); press by Don Hollenbeck (he disapproved the newspapers' handling of the Truman-Hume correspondence); and movies by Bill Leonard (a vote for Born Yesterday; a vote against Red Skelton's Watch the Birdie...
...order was a direct slap at General Motors and Ford, which only a week before had turned down Valentine's request to suspend their price increases (TIME, Dec. 18). But it also affected Chrysler and Nash, which had raised prices last week...
...succeed Charles E. Wilson, who resigned to take over as director of the new Office of Defense Mobilization (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), General Electric's directors last week picked Executive Vice President Ralph J. Cordiner...