Word: photograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...photograph below came to our attention recently when a copy of the Jan. 6 issue of the York (Maine) Weekly turned up in the office. According to the column and a half story accompanying the picture, Charles W. Plaisted, obviously a reader of TIME, was about to celebrate his 100th birthday. To satisfy our curiosity about Mr. Plaisted, who may be the oldest reader of TIME extant, we asked Jeff Wylie, chief of our Boston bureau, to see him on his farm at York Corner...
...nights later, he was roused from his bed. Communist officials showed him a photograph of two priests holding a long metal cylinder. In this, they said, were found the documents which incriminated the cardinal. "The case has blown wide open," said one Red. "Now you'll have to prove yourself." Then they gave Koczan a handwritten petition and told him to sign it. The text denounced Mindszenty for his "treasonable, underhanded" activities...
Grand Rapids is a very fast-growing city, but we cannot quite compare it to Detroit at this time, and your picture is definitely a photograph of Campau Square in this city...
...need for Burke and his amplifier arises from the confluence of an inordinate number of cars, buses, trolley lines and subways in the Square. The loud-speaker idea has received a lot of publicity all over the country, and a man from "Life" has been around to photograph the whole contraption. As far as Burke knows, however, the Harvard Square booth is the only one of its kind in the country; a similar unit in Central Square closed down last year. Outside of its traffic control duties, the booth attracts a clamoring stream of information seekers. Burke is constantly assailed...
Meanwhile, in the capitals of every state, similar groups of electors gathered for similar ceremonies. In New York-as in other states which the G.O.P. carried-they were Republicans. New York's electors, who also posed for an official photograph, got a free lunch, free fountain pens and a chance to meet Governor Thomas E. Dewey.* In Democratic Tennessee there was a mild flurry of excitement. An elector named Preston Parks carried out a vow-and exercised his constitutional right-to vote for the Dixiecrats' J. Strom Thurmond instead of Harry Truman...