Word: graphically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Graphic 17,518 Loss...
...Macfadden decided to exalt physical culture by establishing a Bernarr Macfadden Foundation. The endowment : $5,000,000 interest in Macfadden real estate and publications {Physical Culture Magazine which has currently become dignified- TIME, Sept. 21; Liberty, True Story, and 17 other magazines; the New York tabloid [porno] Graphic and 5 other newspapers...
Like the New York Evening Post, the august Times last week gave an editorial shudder at the picture of a corpse on an autopsy table, front-paged by Macfadden's blatant Graphic (TIME. Sept. 28). The Times charged the tabloid with "ghoulishness," revealed that the forbidden picture had been snapped through a window which "may explain, but it only aggravates, the offense...
...editorial captioned OUR PHOTOGS ARE KEEN BOYS, on a page headed with TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE- "God is Love," the Graphic replied: ". . . It was the least gruesome of all the pictures New York newspapers published of the murdered man's body. It . . . encompassed the whole Collings mystery story. It was a picture of murder and the forces of society at work attempting to unravel the mystery. . . . "As to the matter of theft ... the Times would count any photographer on its staff a total loss who folded his camera and went home merely because some one told...
Mechanically the picture was a variation of the "composograph" (faked picture) with which the Macfadden tabloid Evening Graphic used to sensationalize the news. "Composographs" are rarely used these days to simulate actual news photographs. The energy of news photographers and the license taken by tabloid editors make such devices unnecessary. When the trussed and battered body of Benjamin P. Collings was washed ashore on the sands of Long Island last week (see p. 17). News and Mirror obliged by printing large, close-up pictures of the muddy corpse as it lay on the beach. That put them one jump ahead...