Word: journals
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...regular reading of serious British newspapers never leaves the impression of fundamental issues still unresolved. In contrast, the American press reflects a society in which first principles are actively open to dispute. There is no question which makes the most stimulating journalism." At least there is no question in the mind of British Journal ist Henry Fairlie as he considers the prose and content of the U.S. press in the current issue of Encounter...
Shoveling Flakes. After painting that encouraging overall picture, Fairlie next turns to a more detailed examination of "the great, internationally known newspapers"- specifically the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. The Trib,* as he read it, was entirely unworthy of its once lofty position." In its editorials (as in almost every other important part of the paper, except its sport pages, Eugenia Sheppard and its team of columnists) the Herald Tribune has to all intents and purposes abdicated. It has ceased to be a newspaper in anything but name...
...Formed Taste. The Wall Street Journal receives far higher grades. "Of all the newspapers which I am discussing, the Journal is the only one which, with intelligence, polemic, candor and wit, questions the way in which the world is going. If others like to 'side with history,' the Journal impudently, but intelligently, challenges it." Fairlie warmly compliments the reporting and writing of the Journal's daily background news stories-a piece of praise that is the sole exception to his general contention that American journalists do not know how to write. Even so, for everyday reading, Fairlie...
...further publication of which waited last week on continuing negotiations between striking unions and the newly merged World Journal Tribune...
...veterans described by Bland and Beebe in the New England Journal of Medicine suffered his heart wound at the age of 13 while hunting rabbits. A .22-cal. bullet entered his chest but was removed, and he made such a good recovery that at 18 he was inducted into the Army and fought in Tunisia. Under combat stress, he developed chest pains, and X rays revealed 13 metallic fragments in his chest, three within the heart wall itself. Without surgery, he recovered enough to fight in France and win a Silver Star. Now he works full time as a house...