Word: pages
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...damage. The impact of the Hume note had given all the President's private correspondence an enormous curiosity value and had prompted the world to expect the worst. A letter to Louisiana's Congressman F. Edward Hebert, which ordinarily would have aroused only passing interest, made Page One and caused a second round of lugubrious headshaking...
...last week, Editor Lloyd M. Felmly studied some advance proofs of the comic strip, Rex Morgan, M.D., and came to a sharp decision. He killed the strip, in its place ran an explanation: future sequences "dealt with an attempted mercy killing and had no place on this comic page...
...surprised at his new adventure. In the 2½ years since the strip first appeared, Rex Morgan's concern with the problems of medical life has prompted him to take up questions that old-fashioned cartoonists and some editors might well think "had no place" on a comic page. But for its sharp and accurate commentary on medical problems, Rex Morgan, M.D. has won the admiration of medical men across the land...
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...
...asked Radio Corp. of America to design a special apparatus to copy pages from books or bound periodicals and send them quickly over a wire. Last week the new high-speed "facsimile transmitter" started working. A chemist at Y-12 site called the library at X-10 site and asked for a two-page article in a chemical journal. In 4½ minutes a copy came out of a receiving apparatus at Y12. No matter how hot the copy might get, it need never contaminate...