Word: caption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Montgomery Flagg's best-known picture was a World War I recruiting poster depicting Uncle Sam, black-browed with pointing finger, "demanding: I WANT YOU." In 1914 there was a recruiting poster in England depicting Lord Kitchener, black-browed, black-mustached and with pointing finger, with the caption YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU. This was before your time, probably, but I remember, and I imagine James M. Flagg did also. JOHN B. THOMPSON Grouville, Jersey...
Next day the only newspaper published in Istanbul or Ankara was Menderes' Democratic Party organ, Zajer. Its caption (over a photo snapped just before the storm struck in the square): TREMENDOUS OVATION GIVEN OUR PRIME MINISTER SHOWS AFFECTION OF PEOPLE. But Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu acknowledged that some 50 demonstrators had been arrested after the "ovation," added grimly: "The parliamentary inquiry will take care of them...
...horns of a moral dilemma and feeling no pain." The dilemma: the conflict between the lady of manners and the brittle gossip. Continued the Post: "She is secure enough to have exclaimed once: 'I'm getting a little fed up with Albert Schweitzer,' a natural caption that ever since has been in search of a cartoon." Dorothy,' wrote the Post's five-member reporting team, is so busy being a celebrity that she rarely sees her husband, Broadway Producer Dick Kollmar: "[Dick] and Dorothy go their separate ways for the most part . . . They do meet...
...Wrong Vein. In Tulsa, Okla., the Red Cross dismantled a billboard showing Mayor James L. Maxwell donating blood, with the caption: "Maxwell-Good to the Last Drop...
I.L.N.'s features reflect the far-ranging enthusiasms of its editor. Convinced that "monarchy is the backbone of our nation," Ingram faithfully records the movements of the royal family, extends this interest to crowned heads from Tokyo (characteristic caption: "Another charming picture of the Japanese royal family") to Teheran (recent example: a shot displaying new Queen Farah's shapely legs to full advantage). World War I Captain Ingram is also partial to new weapons, runs meticulously detailed, cutaway drawings that have delighted readers from the time of the Dreadnought to the present-day Nautilus. Ingram has never...