Word: caption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article on the cardinals [March 30], one caption reads, "Mass was sung for Cardinal Muench of Milwaukee." That should read "of Fargo." Muench was Bishop of Fargo from 1935 to 1959, when he became a member of the Curia in Rome...
...some of the finest artisans were to be found in the south, especially around Taranto, the last of the great Greek western colonies. Never before had craftsmen worked with such ingenuity or achieved greater elegance: earlier ornaments like the amber head, made 2,500 years ago (the color caption is in error), had a rather childlike innocence. The blue bronze hands may have been used to decorate some sort of handle; whatever their secret, they remain one artisan's lasting tribute to feminine grace. Of all the collections in the Taranto region, the richest was found in the tomb...
...elbows not only in bread dough but in life. The Journal, which once opposed woman suffrage, broke out in passionate campaigns for purity in politics as well as in maternity wards. It crusaded against venereal disease (a famous Journal ad showed a pretty girl with the caption "Of course I'll take a Wassermann"), hotly recommended flogging for child beaters...
...morning of the Princeton game on November 8, 1926, the Lampoon published football issue featuring a cartoon of two pigs wallowing in the mud with the caption, "Come, brother, let us root for dear old Princeton...
Widely advertised as a magazine that would "take the story beyond what may have been printed in the newspapers," Topic emerged mostly as a creditable hash of what had already been printed in the daily press. Its cover carried a four-color photograph of Princess Margaret with the caption, STORK OVER SNOWDON. Inside, together with a 3,000-word account of the royal pregnancy (she is putting on more weight than her physicians probably approve, betrays an insatiable appetite for beef), Topic readers found the news cub-byholed under such section headings as "Britain's Week," "World Week," "Travel...