Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Motors' slick Friends (1,400,000 a month) could pass as a regular picture magazine. Restyled three years ago by the Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) as a luxury magazine, The Lamp, which goes to 255,000 readers, pays up to $2,500 for articles. Chrysler's Overseas Graphic is exported (in English and Spanish) to 20,500 foreigners...
Yale's Carl Purington Rollins, 68, goateed graphic-arts professor and "Printer to Yale University" since 1920. Harvardman Rollins overhauled all of Yale's printing, from library cards to diplomas, designed more than 2,000 handsome books, won the gold medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (his favorite type face: Caslon old style...
...Britain, crowds of 60,000 to 70,000 watched the last games of the waning football season; millions more sat home and placed bets in the football pools. One lucky Londoner won ?55,000, which, as the Daily Graphic pointed out, was almost exactly what the late Lord Passfield (Sidney Webb) left in his will. There was a public outcry because the Quantock Hunt (staghounds) had been allowed petrol rations of 7½ gallons for each deer bagged. But British huntsmen were scheduling more than 100 chases between Easter and the end of April. In Bavaria, the horse-racing season...
TIME was trying to prove in pictures as well as words that important, "pig iron" news could be made graphic. A year later TIME ran two pages from a Fox Movietone reel of the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia. Out of these experiments grew the idea of LIFE...
Increasing police brutality, discrimination against Negroes even in the nation's capital city, racial segregation in the armed forces, the wartime treatment of West Coast Japanese-Americans, and wide-spread discriminatory practices in housing and education all give graphic support to Truman's statement that the need for a concrete program such as the committee offers "has never been greater than at this moment." Presidential recognition of the gravity of the situation is surely a hopeful sign. But even non-residents of Mr. Truman's home state will "want to be shown" Congressional and State civil liberties legislation, enforced...