Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inspiration Sirs: I don't know TIME'S record for quick action, but I came across something yesterday that might be a record. I read in TIME, Jan. 5, a pretty interesting piece on detergents, which was accompanied by a striking (I might say unforgettable) photograph of two ducks-one floating in a tank of water, the other sinking (after the detergent had been added to the water). This week I received from book publishers William Morrow and Co. an advance copy of a mystery novel, The Case of the Drowning Duck. The jacket shows a duck expiring...
...Fogg's library and photograph collection are unique for their lack of discrimination against Radcliffe students. In addition to the three-story library of stacks and reading room which is solely a convenient branch of Widener, there is a collection of 55,000 slides for class use and 147,000 photographs including a Spanish collection more extensive than anything elsewhere accumulated, even in Spain...
...enter TIME magazine blushing.) . . . Identically the same photograph appears [TIME, April 13] but with another caption, which reads: "Marines have just cleaned out a Japanese hillside position...
...Veteran Photographer James Abbe, father of Patience, Richard and Johnny (whose Around the World in Eleven Years was a best-seller in 1936), turned up in Portland, Ore. last week as that city's first full-time radio newscaster. Now 59, tiny, egg-bald Abbe began a two-a-day stint for the Oregonian's twin stations KGW and KEX. Said he: "All my life editors told me to photograph or write but for God's sake stop talking. Now I can talk...
...autographed print to an art expert whom he suspected of selling him a fake Watteau. Sued for libel by the expert, M. de Malancourt conducted his own defense in the great French tradition. "A picture of one's backsides, he argued, was more intimate and personal than a photograph of one's face. To send it to a friend or acquaintance, therefore, was not an insult, but a mark of affection and esteem. Furthermore, it was a token more permanent and honest than the conventional photograph, since one's bottom changes less rapidly and radically than...