Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unlike so many English celebrities who descend on the U.S. for a few weeks and condescend forever after, White brought with him an open mind, sharp eyes and immense erudition. His journal, conscientiously pieced together between lecture engagements and airport departures, is largely a testament to the diversity of the U.S. Whether describing a loggerhead shrike in North Carolina or an egghead racist in New Orleans, wandering over Beverly Hills ("reminds you of the environs of Florence and Fiesole") or Washington, D.C. ("the chalk-white city half in love with Time"), White displayed even in this disjointed, unedited chronicle...
...addictions were his undoing. Worn out by his trip and weakened by whisky that he soaked up after-but never during-his lecture tour, he died a month after sailing from New York. He had intended to read dozens of volumes of Americana before publishing his journal. As it is, despite inaccuracies, repetitions and typographical errors that would have dismayed him, White's vision of this once and future continent should be read by every Englishman who visits the U.S.-particularly if he intends to write about...
When he got to Honolulu's Tripler General Hospital, reports U.S. Army Surgeon Robert J. Hoagland in the American Journal of Medical Sciences, he discovered that the military community provided him with more than his share of such exasperating emergencies. Anxious to do something about his desperate patients, Dr. Hoagland suggested that emergency-room physicians try to combat coma with doses of "analeptics"-a class of drugs that includes Benzedrine and Dexedrine, and works by stimulating the central nervous system into a state of hyperwakefulness...
EIGHT out of every ten TIME subscribers have gone to college, so the chances are good that your magazine reading includes at least one alumni journal. The editors of these publications have worked hard in recent years to make their magazines better looking and better reading. Early this year the American Alumni Council, feeling that their efforts should be recognized, asked TIME to appoint a board of judges to look over the magazines and pick the publication that showed the greatest improvement over the previous year. As it happens, every year for the past twelve we have made another award...
...trick is to discover a need, then find a way to fill it. Don Over, 37, saw a need for a trade journal that would tell big builders what major construction jobs were up for bidding: he took over a failing Honolulu magazine and printing press, built up a circulation in 60 countries for his International Construction Reporter (cost: $50 per year). Merlyn Mickelson decided that the computer companies would need a lot of handmade magnetic memory cores, started turning them out in his basement workshop; that eventually grew into Fabri-Tek Inc., in which his stockholdings are now worth...