Word: caption
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite Mr. Conant's National Scholarships and the Tercentenary and all other claims of Harvard to international fame, there are yet certain sections of this country to which the name of Harvard is merely a name. Witness the caption beneath a picture of one of our athletes in the "Wyoming Times" published in Evanston (in the state of Wyoming...
...however, a number of members of the Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman last summer enlisted God's aid in a journalistic venture. In their "quiet times" every morning they took pencil & paper, jotted down what they believed to be divine instructions on problems of makeup, caption-writing and layout for a one-shot picture magazine to be called Rising Tide. The result was published in an. edition of 300,000 copies in England last month. On U. S. newsstands this week is the U. S. Rising Tide (10?), similarly God-guided. To get out other vernacular...
...that, put on newsstands mainly in the Midwest 200,000 copies of a 10? bimonthly, Peek-A Look at Life. In Peek Publisher Cotton, now eastern representative of Illinois' Kable Bros. Co., printers, does a picture Ballyhoo of LIFE in "Peek Along America's News Front." Sample caption: "Larry (Tarzan) Crabbe holds Betty Grable up on the Paramount lot so the cameraman can see what made Tarzan wild." Other features: "Peek-uliar Fishing," "Peek at a (Animal) Party," "Peeking at Pictures" which features a "distortograph" of Stuart Erwin. Peek's "advertising" pages burlesque Tanka Coffee and Giraffe...
Tennessee-born Singer Grace Moore arrived in Manhattan with a Tennessee ham, was asked by photographers to pose with it. As she did so, her pressagent warned: "You know what the caption will be: a couple of Tennessee hams...
...summarily out of a job. Reason: an intentionally humorous illustrated advertisement which dentists did not think a bit funny when they saw it in last month's Dental Survey and Oral Hygiene. The illustration: a middle-aged dentist holding his pretty office assistant on his lap. The caption: "Look what you can do with the time you save with F-R solutions...