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...Gilbert M. Grosvenor, president of the National Geographic Society, said, "Our adult population, especially our young adults, do not understand the world at a time in our history when we face a critical economic need to understand foreign consumers, markets, customs, foreign strengths and weaknesses...
...second president, Alexander Graham Bell, who in 1898 succeeded his father-in-law Gardiner Greene Hubbard, set the tone for the enterprise by declaring, "The world and all that is in it is our theme." When Bell hired his future son-in-law, a schoolteacher named Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor, 23, to run the magazine in 1899, the young man catered to snob appeal by soliciting "nominations for membership" instead of subscriptions. The device eventually created the largest nonselective society in the world. Grosvenor's grandson Gil now serves as president of the nonprofit society, which last year showed an estimated...
...clout to get its photos. In 1905 it published 138 pictures of ; the Philippines that were so popular the magazine had to go to a second printing. Source of the pictures: a U.S. War Department report, courtesy of Secretary of War William Howard Taft, who happened to be Editor Grosvenor's cousin. On occasion, National Geographic has not let verisimilitude stand in the way of a good picture either. Editors laying out the February 1982 cover on Napoleon's life and campaigns used a computer to shift the position of one of the Egyptian pyramids in a photograph...
...target to low-flying German planes, kept the island from sinking into the sea under the weight of men and machines massing for Dday. London was a kaleidoscope of uniforms: British, Commonwealth, French, Norwegian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, Polish and, of course, American. So many U.S. officers worked around Grosvenor Square that G.I.s walking through the area kept their arms raised in semipermanent salute. In the southern counties, near the coast from which the armada would sail, military convoys clogged the crooked lanes of the countryside; entire fields disappeared under swarms of tanks and trucks and piles of ammunition and fuel...
...leading men render fittingly stereotypic presentations of their characters. Thrope's Bunthorne is hopelessly clownish; he mugs ridiculous poses and his gray velvet costumes and black wig capture his superficiality as he practices all over the stage during his solo "Am'I Alone and unobserved? And Sullivan's Grosvenor mocks all handsome heroes with his marcissism powered by a stage presence that would sweep even the audience off its feet. Sullivan and Thrope prove excellent foils in brisk repartee during their duet. "When I Go Out of Doors," as Bunthorne tries to convince Grosvenor to become more homely...