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...crowd which jammed the sedate portals of Chicago's Art Institute one evening last week caused the Chicago Daily News to headline: HELP! POLICE! ART EXHIBITION CALLS OUT COPS ! The headline was strictly factual: firemen as well as police were summoned to handle the overflow throng. What 6,500 art-lovers had come to see was the first comprehensive U.S. exhibition of the work of a 31-years-dead Mexican who has been called the greatest popular artist North America has ever produced. Few in the U.S. have ever heard of José Guadalupe Posada, "printmaker to the Mexican...
John Chamberlain called it "the first real book-length introduction to what war can mean to a peace-loving people." Lewis Gannett said its pages are "the most graphic, factual, frightened and frightening picture of frontline battle I have yet seen in print." Joseph Henry Jackson of the San Francisco Chronicle found it "one of the most truthful accounts of action in this war-and one of the most vivid pieces of writing on record." "About as near as you can get, in an armchair, to being in the midst of battle," said The Nation. And Foster Hailey wrote...
...political polls, TIME readers should be well aware that the best of surveys is in fact nothing but a factual report of public sentiment at some period before election day. A series of such surveys, beginning now when many people are not greatly interested in politics, can be a useful progressive report of the development of public sentiment. What follows is a report on the state of the public mind in mid-February...
...surprised that TIME, with its zeal for factual. description, should have been so bamboozled...
...years-belated shock came in a joint Army-Navy release, based on factual, eyewitness, non-hearsay accounts from Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess and two others who escaped from Jap imprisonment and torture last April. From their reports, the Army & Navy concluded that of the 22,300 Americans taken captive on Bataan and Corregidor, at least 7,700 had been tortured, starved or shot to death in the first year of imprisonment. The number of dead among the 28,000 Filipino captives was incalculable...