Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lindbergh radioed ahead asking that flares and bonfires be prepared for their landing, but 100 mi. short of Nome they ran into soupy fog, sat down at Shishmaref south-west of Kotzebue Sound to wait for clear weather. (LINDYS LOST IN ARCTIC SEA headlined the catchpenny New York Evening Graphic.) Several hours later they reached Nome, put their ship down on Safety Bay, 21 mi. away, instead of in the Nome River. There they dined on reindeer meat with Territorial Senator Alfred Julian Lomen; witnessed an Eskimo "wolf dance," performed for the second time in 20 years; heard oldtime wireless...
...might happen if a small, green, succulent frog were placed before three hungry, venomous snakes? Frederick William Fitzsimons, for 25 years director of the snake park and museum at Port Elizabeth, South Africa, lately found out. He took progressive photographs of the affair and sent them to the London Graphic, which published them last fortnight under the headline, "Dinner for Three: Digestion...
...reads the New York Times there is little if anything to choose between Patterson s Daily News and Macfadden's Evening Graphic. To him both are tabloids and thereby tarred with the same brush of blatant sexationalism. The fact is that the News has definite pretensions to being a newspaper; the Graphic none. Somewhere between the two but perceptibly nearer the News, falls the Hearst-Kobler Daily Mirror...
...distinction between Mirror and Graphic is hazy to the chance observer, it is bold as a banner headline to Editor Emile Henry Gauvreau of the Mirror.To him it is the difference between outmoded pornography and the beginning of a new "Tabloidia" in which he implicitly believes. He was the porno-Graphic's first managing editor. He stuck with it for five years until, sick of dishing up nothing but sex, scandal, crime, faked news & faked pictures to an illiterate circulation, he quit and went to the Mirror (TIME. July 22, 1929). There he could print at least some legitimate...
...other critics in order of guess ability were: J. Brooks Atkinson (Times), John Anderson (Journal), Percy Hammond (Herald Tribune), Walter Winchell (Mirror), Robert Garland (World-Telegram), Richard Lockridge (Sun), Gilbert Seldes (Graphic), Burns Mantle (News), Gilbert Gabriel (American...