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News telecasts rarely get off the ground: an announcer reads from a script, with downswept eyes, pointing occasionally to a map, a cartoon or a still photograph. A few (notably the NBC Camel-Fox Movietone News and Du Mont's Tele-News) offer first-rate, up-to-the-minute newsreels. But mostly spot news pickups are only a lick & a promise. Exception: such foreseeable events as political rallies where the cameras, being set in place, catch unscheduled incidents. Television looks forward to the summer's forthcoming conventions, which will be carried by 18 stations (LIFE will cover with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Infant Grows Up | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...simply to corrupt Berlin's brain and conscience, to destroy the value Berliners put on their lives, their homes, and their city. Terror has allies. Lesser and more ordinary suffering has corroded untold values. In countless brains and consciences, all political debate is held worthless. A typical newspaper cartoon this past winter showed a child pointing to a pile of cut timber: "Is that wood for our fireplaces, Daddy?" "No, son, it is for conference tables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: On a Sandy Plain | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...that can be remedied at 14 Plympton Street tonight when the CRIMSON inaugurates its second annual cartoon competition. Appreciation, good fellowship and much beer await would-be Dave Braeteus who enjoy exposing their works of art to the public gage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ink, Beer Mix At Crime Comp | 4/13/1948 | See Source »

When the Soviet's actions at U.N. turned Mauldin into what he called "a disillusioned fellow traveler," he turned to obscure crusades that baffled many a reader and lost him more papers. Though 182 papers used to carry him, only 56 ran his last cartoon this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Trouble Back Home | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...flunked out of Johns Hopkins), was a headmaster of the lower form at a Baltimore school, later bossed a World War II Navy school. The first time he saw Avon Old Farms, he said, "I felt as if I had walked into the middle of a Charles Addams cartoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Little Gentlemen | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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