Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time I am thoroughly disgusted with TIME. My first impulse, after reading page 48 of the Oct. 3rd issue, was to cancel my subscription. That page, with its rehashing of the foul Beecher scandal, would have a familiar setting in the Daily News or the Graphic. It is altogether out of place in TIME. For printing such a scurrilous attack upon one of the most gifted and cultured men who has appeared in the American pulpit you deserve to lose many subscribers. And you will. What I regret most is that to the man who doesn't know...
...original building was built in 1672, but was destroyed by fire in 1764, when the Massachusetts General Court was holding sessions in it, having been driven out of Boston by an epidemic of smallpox. "The Massachusetts Gazette" of February 2 gives a graphic account of the blaze...
Delving within, palpitating readers found the story of the execution by one Jack Grey, Graphic reporter...
...decidedly graphic description. Gullible readers devoured it. Careful readers laughed, for it was a fact, published in newspapers throughout the land, that W. E. Playfair of the Associated Press was the only newspaperman permitted in the death house to view the execution...
Queried in Manhattan, a man who said he was Jack Grey of the Graphic insisted that he had been in the death house. He said Boston was his home town and that he "had influence" there. He refused to tell how he got into the death house; or to tell where he stood. He refused to give any factual information at all or to be photographed. The city editor of the Graphic said that Mr. Grey had told him he was in the death house, and that he had had to accept his word...