Word: journals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan's insecure aristocracy of wealth to spend their evenings in public restaurants rather than their homes. As a group, this faction got itself labeled Cafe Society. Top chroniclers of Manhattan society are "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Maury Paul), $50,000-a-year oldtime smart-setter for the New York Journal and American, and Lucius Beebe who writes a weekly column for the New York Herald Tribune...
Last January, when news of Dr. Segal's experiments reached England, the Lancet, world's most famed medical journal, promptly pounced on them. An unsigned editorial commended Dr. Segal's objectivity, delicately sneered at his conclusions, offered a highly original explanation for smokers' fatigue. Despite the "bounding vitality and missionary fervor" of the "heroes" who stop smoking, said the editorial, it is doubtful that the drug nicotine alone produces fatigue. There is a "feeling to which an extraordinary number of people admit, that they smoke too much-that cigarets are a waste of money...
...good reason why politically-wise Harry Hopkins made no specific suggestions in his speech was explained by the Wall Street Journal: "Various New Deal officials and agencies had squared away for an open fight on Mr. Hopkins if he stuck a critical finger publicly into their particular affairs and the Secretary was content ... to deal in generalities . . . and keep specific suggestions in reserve...
Founded in 1937 by the bequest of Mrs. Agnes Wahl Nieman, in memory of her husband, the founder of the Milwaukee Journal, "to promote and elevate the standards of journalism in the United States," the Fellowships give their recipients an annual stipend approximately equal to their salaries...
...exile from Germany's University of Munich, demure Dr. Bethe at Cornell has increased his repute as an atomic theorist like a snowball rolling downhill. It is hard to pick up a physics journal nowadays in which he has not some new light to shed on old problems, or in which other physicists do not find occasion to cite his work. Dr. Russell in Philadelphia last week left no doubt that this new work on the sun is a highly valued contribution-from an astrophysical point of view, very hot stuff indeed...