Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When British publishers spoke of "The Great Eight" they meant the Graphic, Illustrated London News, Sphere, Sketch, Tatler, Bystander, Britannia & Eve, Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic News-all published by Illustrated Newspapers Ltd. Last week the eight were reduced to-seven. Instead of their weekly copies of the Graphic, U. S. subscribers received instead notice that the famed 62-year-old paper was no more...
...eight, Graphic and Illustrated London News were best known in the U. S. Both were distinguished by fine color plates, striking photographs of world news events, superbly printed. It was the alert, somewhat sensational Graphic that introduced to the English-speaking Press Dr. Erich Salomon and his "Candid Camera." The Graphic devoted less attention than the Illustrated London News to archaeology, Egyptology; more to unique photography. Also it combed the world's Press for items characteristic of national foibles, reprinted them with little or no comment as the American Mercury presents its "Americana...
Early this year the Great Eight publishers elected to alter the Graphic because it resembled Sphere too closely. At the same time Editor William Comyns Beaumont of Bystander was considering quitting the Great Eight group to start a weekly of his own, an illustrated smartchart something like the New Yorker, to be named either The Londoner or St. James's. Instead the publishers let Editor Beaumont take charge of the Graphic, replacing Editor Alan John Bott...
...Graphic's $760,500 liabilities, 3,700 is owed to Macfadden Publications Inc. for loans and materials...
After several weeks of probity, the Graphic reverted last week to type in what looked like its final week-end edition. As tailpiece to an affronting chapter in U. S. journalism, on the front of the rotogravure section was the picture of a film actress with a robe slipping from her shoulders and thighs. Beneath her was a caption for a story on an inside page: SEX MYSTERIES REVEALED...