Word: captioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dear Time-Reader Reproductions of the photograph below with its accompanying caption have been circulating for weeks in Costa Rica, land of good coffee, good climate, beautiful women and, recently, civil war. When TIME'S editors wrote the caption and ran the picture in our April 5 issue, the war was on between Rebel Leader Figueres' men and the forces of a Communist-dominated Government whose Congress had annulled the recent presidential election won by Newspaper Publisher Ulate. It had obviously not occurred to the editors that their work might become a symbol of rebel hope...
...Costa Rican readers. The censors held all copies of the April 5 issue at San Jose's airport and they were released only after TIME Inc.'s Central American correspondent, Jerry Hannifin, had protested successfully to the Government. Thereafter hundreds of reproductions of the picture and caption began to appear. They are still selling throughout Costa Rica for about 22? apiece. For many Costa Ricans, who framed the picture and hung it in their homes, it was the first time they had seen a photograph of Figueres and Ulate together. The original photograph was taken by an American...
Your picture caption on the smash hit, Mister Roberts, reads David Wayne, Henry Fonda, William Harrigan [TIME, March 1]. Rather believe the last one is Robert Keith, the ship's doctor. The ship's captain, William Harrigan, spends little time with his men, certainly had no time to help the rest prepare a homemade alcoholic concoction...
Jubilant Communists this week were busily plastering Rome's walls with the picture of a Roman Catholic priest. The caption: "One vote the Christian Democrats won't get. Monsignor Cippico, Vatican official, can't vote because he's in jail. He would have voted Christian Democrat -if he hadn't been caught...
...Offhand, the picture looked like good news: two men, one a policeman, appeared to have rescued a small boy from an icy stream (see cut). But when newspaper readers looked at the caption, they learned that three-year-old Peter Shoukimas of Cranford, N.J. was dead. He had drowned in the Rahway River. His mother said that he was always slipping away to watch the river. "It utterly fascinated him," she said...