Word: graphic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, where Father bawled his lines for the first time last week, prospects were not so rosy. London's critics (like Rome's-TIME, March 24) took the old boy for a fall. Hmmed the Daily Graphic: "New York has been convulsed for seven years. . . . Why?" The Daily Telegraph found it "all very pleasant in an elementary way [but] not as good as all that." The News Chronicle was inclined to blame the slow-paced British cast (headed by Leslie Banks and Sophie Stewart), who "struggle hard not to give the impression that they are foundering...
...most graphic irony of Moscow's failure was epitomized in the picture of the week-a gift from grim Foreign Minister Molotov to dogged Secretary of State Marshall. The painting, by Russian Landscape Painter V. N. Baksheev, 85, titled Toward Evening, showed a peaceful wooded scene whose tranquility was untroubled by a single human figure...
Married. Francis Archibald Kelhead Douglas, roth Marquess of Queensberry, 51, grandson of the man who supervised the formulation of the modern prize ring's rules (a boxing expert himself, the Marquess came to the U.S. last May to report the Louis-Conn bout for the London Daily Graphic); and Mimi Gore Chunn, 36, secretary of his wartime Queensberry All-Service Boxing Club; he for the third time, she for the second; in London, without the ring, which he had left at home...
...ornate Roman eagles, whose gilt was flaking off from time to time and floating gently down into the courtroom. He seemed to snarl as he spoke, because his World War II bullet wound had distorted his mouth. For the first time after two decades of rumor, Dumini told a graphic story of the famous killing...
...handles a typewriter about as clumsily as the average reporter would handle a Speed Graphic camera. But Francis Michael ("Slim") Lynch makes good pictures with either machine. A year ago, the Washington State Press Club gave old-time Photographer Lynch a prize (for a picture of a murderer's wife tearfully comforting the victim's mother). Last week Slim Lynch, who has now put his camera aside, got another Press Club award-this time, for the best-written feature story in any newspaper in the state...