Word: photographs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most ascetic Moslem sect, the Wahabis,and his courtiers explain: "Our King has never had more than four wives at any one time." Bert Fish last week voiced hopes "for the personal happiness of Your Majesty and the prosperity of your people," presented Ibn Saud with a silver-framed photograph of President Roosevelt. Before returning to Cairo, the U. S. Minister will travel narrowly in Saudi Arabia, widely in the Sudan and Upper Egypt...
Under Transport, headed Kiwi (TIME, July 31) you wrote a story about British Subject Charles Grey Grey, editor for 28 years of the British aviation magazine The Aeroplane. Isn't the accompanying photograph (captioned "Charles Grey Grey...
...with the actual material that its effect is tenacious and clinging rather than sudden. There is in it a silent sort of tension which is capable of producing a response within the mind of the spectator, a response which is only communicable by means of the actual object. A photograph or description will not serve...
Author La Varre has undoubtedly done something in South America in a topee and a pair of expensive boots (a photograph proves it), and he has an ingratiatingly beautiful wife (same equipment), but his tales are in the "Green Hell" category. Gold and other treasure is the goal of most of the adventures narrated; the sexual problems presented by Amazon Indian women in beaded aprons are coy complications in several plots...
...best-seller in Russia, just as Hitler's turgid but more interesting Mem Kampf outsells all secular volumes in Germany. He goes in for Nazi-like plebiscites. Hitler won his 1938 election by 99.08% of the voters; Stalin polls 115% in his own Moscow bailiwick. Stalin's photograph became the icon of the new State, whose religion is Communism...