Word: captions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ASSOCIATED PRESS PICTURE CAPTION ON A MOSCOW CROWD SCENE ["The Road to Serfdom"-July 7] ERRONEOUSLY DESCRIBED THE PEOPLE AS PARTICIPANTS IN JUNE 23 DEMONSTRATIONS AT THE WEST GERMAN EMBASSY. THE PICTURE SHOWED A LONG LINE OF PEOPLE WALKING ACROSS RED SQUARE. INQUIRY HAS DEVELOPED THAT THE MOSCOW GROUP THUS PICTURED HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE DEMONSTRATIONS...
...canceled Walter Winchell File. Spectacular billboards glutted the highways for 300 miles around Las Vegas (and up and down Hollywood's Sunset Strip), radio stations spewed his own breathless announcements all over the West, the Tropicana was laden with huge photographs of Winchell hovering near President Eisenhower (caption: "The only reporter allowed this close...
...carry commuters such as these it costs your railroad $2 for every $1 received." So read the caption under a photograph of anonymous commuters in the New Haven railroad's annual report, which sadly totted up a $2,363,702 deficit in 1957. Last week, reporting an even steeper deficit of $3,018,169 just for January-February, the New Haven unhappily discovered the identity of the costly "commuters" pictured in its annual report. Names: Boston and Maine's President Patrick B. McGinnis-who was dumped as New Haven president after a 1956 commuter revolt against late trains...
...print] a headline from the Providence Bulletin over a caption that reads "Hopeful Headline.':, 'We don't want to scare advertisers' "... The story upon which the headline was based, and which apparently was not read by your compiler of headlines, was an ironic one, and so was the head. The jobs referred to were four in number, at the Rhode Island Development Council, at salaries ranging from...
...mixing the races in the classroom. When a Brooklyn principal killed himself during a grand jury investigation of violence at his junior high school (TIME, Feb. 19), Mississippi's extremist Jackson Daily News front-paged the story with a picture of a Negro policeman guarding the school. Caption: "Mixed school violence led to this...