Word: journals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when he began his practice of law and was riding circuit form Maine to Cape Cod, he used to carry several of these littler books with him, jotting down impressions from time to time. As was his wont for most of his early diary-writing years (he kept a journal of some form or another until he left the Presidency), he followed no rigid pattern as to which books he wrote in. "He sometimes had three or four books going at once," according to Butterfield. "But he got a little formal about it when he went to Congress and became...
...diary, published in four with is autobiography 1961, had been thought to be complete, but the Adams had kept yet journal, this one shorter even less systematic than of his others. And this , uncovered among the of the Vermont Judge who wooed Adam's daughter, is earliest one scholars have looked most likely the first diary ever kept...
Financial Woes. The publishers confirmed Pressman's scoop, but they were not offering any details. Best guess, however, was that Scripps-Howard's Telly and Hearst's J-A would merge, quite possibly under the editorial direction of the Journal. That would leave the New York Post the only other remaining afternoon paper. In addition, the Sunday edition of the Trib would combine with the Journal's Sunday paper (the Telly has no Sunday edition). At the same time, the papers are exploring the possibility of combined printing operations to cut production costs, and are considering...
...them-more than any other city in the U.S. But suburban papers, newsmagazines and radio and television have cut deeply into the circulation of all but the News and Times. From 1955 to 1964, the circulation of the Trib dropped from 340,462 to 307,674, the Journal sagged from 653,291 to 538,057, the Telegram from 570,275 to 403,340, the Post from 399,886 to 329,523; in that period, the Times rose 117,759, to 652,135, and the News climbed 33,445, to 2,170,373. Meanwhile, production wage costs at all the papers...
...Zealand surgeons report in the British Medical Journal that they have had close calls with two patients. A man of 68 had been doing well in Dunedin Hospital after a week on an external pacemaker. The surgeons were installing an internal model that was designed to work indefinitely, but when they cut into the patient's heart sac to put an electrode in the heart muscle, the external pacemaker went wild, and the heart twitched ineffectively. The doctors traced the trouble to high-frequency interference from the diathermy machine that powered the electric scalpel they were using. This...