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...Captions explained the pictures. The man was a Pilot Erich Kocher. He flew by lung-power, utilizing the rotor principle. Strapped to his chest was an assembly of two horizontal rotors. He had skiis on his feet for landing gear, and a finlike tail attached to his stern. By blowing into a box on his chest, Pilot Kocher made the rotors revolve. The turning rotors created a suction ahead, into which Pilot Kocher & apparatus sailed gaily, while his excited friends trotted after him. The august New York Times, proud of its minute coverage of aviation, printed the picture...
...Shanghai's Nantao Clinic, it presents 87 pages of war pictures which Dr. Yu took with a Brownie, seven pages of advertisements (venereal cures, toothpastes, virility drugs, sun lamps). Because doctors work behind the lines, there are no pictures of actual combat, many of the wounded. Sample caption, in English & Chinese: "The Wounded Receiving Eatables...
...helps the German (Ernst Busch) with his mending; good sounds when he bellows wordlessly to warn his comrades of a gas attack. Photographed with an eye to symbolism, Hell on Earth is outspoken propaganda when it ends with the question: "Where are the five men going?'' A caption answers: "To fight all IM- PERIALISTIC WARS...
...Shirley's letter which appeared in the CRIMSON yesterday, under the caption "Man v. Kittredge," let me say once and for all that it is not my intention to enter into polemics with individuals...
...have just learned that you are about to publish an article alleged to have been written by me, under the caption Germany's Aim: She Wants More Territory. ... I declare herewith explicitly that I have written no such paper either for you or any other publication. ... I expect in fairness that you will immediately stop the issue in question, or, if too late for that, you will make known my disavowal...