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...recent discussion in the CRIMSON concerning religion at Harvard has revealed certain misconceptions as to the nature and purpose of the United Ministry. Thus a statement issued by the student president of five religions groups was given the caption, "Views of Five United Ministry Heads...
...worst of the lot is a drawing by James Montgomery Flagg showing a jester jabbing his pen into the rear end of an evil-looking person labeled "Hypocrisy." The caption is, "1951--Lampy--Still doing his stuff." If Mr. Flagg is seriously implying that the Lampoon is a puncturer of the balloons of insincerity and inconsistency which clutter up the atmosphere of society, then he should examine more closely the recent copies of the magazine...
While the defendants were still awaiting trial, said Jackson, one local newspaper (the Orlando Sentinel-circ. 29,349) published a cartoon picturing vacant electric chairs. The caption: "No Compromise-Supreme Penalty." As mob violence swept the county, headlines appeared which Jackson thought inflammatory. Examples: the Sentinel's FLAMES FROM NEGRO HOMES LIGHT NIGHT SKY IN LAKE COUNTY, the Tampa Tribune's NIGHT RIDERS BURN LAKE NEGRO HOMES. Although the sheriff announced that the men had confessed, said Jackson, the "confession" itself was never introduced in evidence. Moreover, said he, the trial court had thrown out, as irrelevant, evidence...
...that these chunks of climate must pay duty?" Said the Times: "If the taxation is for revenue, the interest of the Exchequer demands the utmost effort to stimulate trade with the Polar region . . ." An Evening News cartoon pictured ogre-like customs men waiting to pounce on returning travelers. The caption read: "Ready, men? Watch out for French air in the bicycle tires, Swiss mud on the ski boots, Italian sunburn, Continental elan...
...know about a four-page anti-Tydings tabloid which the Times-Herald had published to help Republican Candidate John Marshall Butler to victory. The tabloid ran a picture of an open-mouthed Communist Earl Browder standing close to Tydings, who was in a pose of thoughtful listening. The caption labeled the picture "composite" (i.e., two separate pictures pasted together), but at first glance it looked as if Tydings and Browder had actually posed together. The caption added that Tydings had said, "Oh, thank you, sir," after Browder's testimony in the Tydings committee's investigation into Communism...