Word: captioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a picture suspiciously like their faked shot turned up in a full-page layout that replaced the editorial page in most of the Hearst papers. Cried its caption, in a single horrified breath: "Throughout the nation, this scene is being reenacted on a scale increasing at a rate that has brought a rising tide of demand for a law to end promiscuous drinking by women." Brayed a banner headline: AMERICA'S TRAGEDY-THE FEMALE BARFLY. As if to show the world-and his editors-that there was life in the old boy yet, aged (84), ailing William...
...TIME, misled by an erroneous picture caption, apologizes to Mrs. Cleon Throckmorton. The stogie-puffer was Antoinette Dallas Turcas Throckmorton...
...Humanité's solution: "A law for the material and moral protection of our child's press." To twist home the point, the editors ran a two-column cut of a handsome, curly-haired boy doing his homework under lamplight. No comics were in sight, but the caption read: "Is this studious little boy to be the prey of Yankee journalism, the murderer of youthful minds...
...bought a four-column ad in the New York Times to assure "worried friends" that, despite the hurricane (TIME, Sept. 29), their town was still on the map. To be sure, there were "some windows broken," but "reports of storm-damage were, fortunately, vastly overestimated." Said the come-hither caption on one of the ad's four post-storm pictures: "All the historic landmarks-the lacy balconies and secluded patios-still are here to delight our visitors...
...Punch cartoon showed a servant of Her Majesty's Treasury waving aside a bearded gentleman with a bundle of pictures. The caption: "Much obliged, but we are a nation of shopkeepers. We don't want any art today, thank you." The snubbed picture-pedlar, as every Punch reader knew, was a Lancashire-born sugar baron named Henry Tate. He had just offered 60 contemporary paintings to Britain's National Gallery-and had been turned down. Five years later, he retaliated millionaire-fashion by building Britain a brand-new gallery and throwing in his collection as a bonus...