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...pacifists, but the exact opposite might be the case. The photo on this page--one of the first images of dead Americans published during World War II, which appeared in the Sept. 20, 1943, issue of LIFE magazine--was intended to incite anger and awareness. It came after Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that the home front had become too complacent, too distanced from the realities of combat, and so he lifted the censorship of American casualties. But the editors of LIFE still felt a need to explain their decision: "Why print this picture? ... The reason is that words are never...
Most people are probably unaware that Benjamin Franklin once wrote a letter beginning with the cryptic phrase: “Diir Sir, yi hav transkryb’d iur alfabet.” But this very letter from this founding father, innovator and advocate of spelling reform is on display this month in the Houghton Library’s “Alphabetics,” an exhibition of book arts involving unusual and creative thought about letters...
...pacifists, but the exact opposite might be the case. The photo on this page - one of the first images of dead Americans published during World War II, which appeared in the Sept. 20, 1943, issue of LIFE magazine - was intended to incite anger and awareness. It came after Franklin D. Roosevelt decided that the home front had become too complacent, too distanced from the realities of combat, and so he lifted the censorship of American casualties. But the editors of LIFE still felt a need to explain their decision: "Why print this picture? ... The reason is that words are never...
...cold and somber day. Nearly a quarter of the labor force was out of work. Banks had shut their doors. Farms were going belly up. Breadlines snaked through city streets. Standing jut jawed at the lectern before the Capitol's assembled throng on his first Inauguration Day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt countered the sense of helplessness, telling the shaken nation, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He then outlined a plan of economic revolution: bank and stock-market reforms, public-works programs, and emergency relief for farms. But the day's solemnity made room for celebration...
...Even with all its history—10 Beanpots, one national championship and the likes of Billy Cleary ’56, the Fusco brothers and Lane MacDonald ’89—never since the birth of Harvard hockey on Boston’s Franklin Field in 1898 had the Crimson won back-to-back ECAC titles...