Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learned to get along. In making his official courtesy call on the commanding officer of a new post, he always saw to it that the officer was out at the time. Later, as a roving representative of the Inspector General's office, he always arranged his schedule to arrive at a new command in midafternoon, so that the commanding officer could look him over and decide whether to invite him to dinner. "I was always the only colored officer at my post," he recalled. "But it made no difference to me. Nobody paid any attention, and at every post...
...work. His father was Colonel Jacob Wark ("Roaring Jake") Griffith, a Confederate cavalry officer given to florid readings of Shakespeare. Like him, young D. W. had a stentorian voice, a tough physical frame, and a character that mixed moral austerity with poetic sentiment. He absorbed the attitude of the post-bellum Southerner to the Nouhern carpetbagger and the problems of the new freed men. When his talents and his viewpoint merged in The Birth of a Nation, a story of the Civil War, the Reconstruction and the first Ku Klux Klan, the cinema had its first "colossal...
...California sunshine last week. Amateur Archaeologist C. D. McCown was troweling away at the camp site of Pinto Man found eight months ago in the hot Mojave Desert (TIME, May 31). Under the dry surface he came on what looked like a pesthole. The wood of the post had disappeared thousands of years ago, but in its place was sand contrasting with the undisturbed earth around it. Other diggers downed their tools and hurried up excitedly; such filled-in postholes are treasures in archaeology...
...picture services, if a distant one. As an experiment, the New York Star last week published three pictures of the Democratic Convention photographed in Manhattan from a television screen by an ordinary camera (and no flashlights). LIFE also ran similar pictures this week. Acme, the New York Post and the New York Daily News have also taken pictures from television screens. Their results, like the Star's, have been too fuzzy and distorted to run as news pictures, though no worse than the early wired photos. But television will improve...
...skater's steam, kill two birds with one stone by getting a camouflaged callipygian* camisole." Such lusty ballyhoo - for Springs Mills' "Springmaid" fabrics - startled readers of the high-necked New York Times. It drew stares from some readers of TIME, FORTUNE, This Week and the Saturday Evening Post, which also ran the illustrated (see cut) ads. It also drew a shocked cry of "bad taste" from Advertising Age and protests from the New Yorker, LIFE, and other magazines which refused to run other Springmaid copy until such phrases as "ham hamper, lung lifter" and "rumba aroma" were deleted...