Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their fantastic, nightmarish extreme U.S. tabloids never surpassed the strange journalism of Macfadden's late Graphic and Hearst's early Mirror under the editorship of Emile Gauvreau, a brilliant, unhappy, sensitive, tough, crippled. French-Canadian-Irish, Connecticut-born newspaperman who now raises goats and chickens on a small farm near Philadelphia...
...more kick coming. For what the newsreels haven't done, Hollywood has-in no uncertain manner. "A Yank in the R. A. F." packs enough wallop in its action shots to satisfy the appetite of the most thrill-hungry customer. And when it comes to making a graphic account of the events of Europe today, scenes like the British evacuation from Dunkirk, and the night raid over Berlin tops, for sheer punch, anything that has yet been turned out on World...
Died. Stephen Henry Horgan, 87, inventor of halftone engraving; in Orange, N.J. In 1880 as a photographer on the New York Daily Graphic, world's first illustrated newspaper, he worked out the process which made possible the general reproduction of photographs in the press...
During the past two decades underslung James Jemail, 47, tipping his hat and toting his 2¼ by 3¼ Speed Graphic, has accosted, questioned and photographed at least 150,000 people. More than 50,000 of his pictures, six to a column and each accompanied by its 50-word answer to the question of the day, have been published...
Several years ago Quinquela Martín bought a piece of one of La Boca's slum-strewn blocks and gave it to the municipality on condition that it erect there a school of graphic arts exclusively for La Boca's moppets. The school was built, named the Escuela-Museo Don Pedro...