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Admirers of Sherlock Holmes in general and his devotees in the Baker Street Irregulars in particular will resent the caption under the head of "Politics" (TIME...
Sirs: I should like to answer the poignant, all-important questions concerning war production, "Why the letdown? Overconfidence?", that caption the picture of General Somervell on p. 19 of your July 12 issue...
...become involved in the most decided peculiarities of right-of-way (see cut}. One of Emett's railway carriages is blue with the exhalations of an American Indian sucking his calumet, a Chinese inhaling opium, an East Indian at his hookah and other assorted pipe addicts (the caption, in the mouths of two elderly ladies, is "Bother-it's a smoker!"). An Emett dining car, where rabbit is being served, affords, by virtue of a sharp curve in the track, a view of the train's last car where the demoniac chef...
...rushing to press, played the picture straight. The New York Daily News gave it a ten-column, double-truck display, called it "a great battle picture"; so did Editor & Publisher, publication trade weekly. LIFE, pondering the picture, had grave qualms, finally printed it double-spread, but with a skeptical caption: ". . . In spite of the apparent approach of enemy planes . . . soldiers are still rid ing forward, not bothering to take cover. . . . Furthermore, none of the soldiers is looking at the bomb bursts [which] them selves are not behaving exactly the way bomb bursts usually behave...
...Mexican volcano crupts--Harvard sends an expedition tomorrow to study it. Nearby town vacated. --Caption, Boston Globe, April...