Word: posters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along Lisbon's sunny streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...
...Yale Victory Dance" the poster shouted to Vag in big blue letters as he loped down the entry steps on his way to the Pro. He crossed the courtyard and waded through several piles of leaves before the proclamation reached his inner self, already plagued by calculations of punch bowl capacity. Several steps further and he was saying to himself, over and over, "Yale Victory Dance." Several steps more and he stopped dead, thunderstruck. Yale victory indeed...
...thought again of the blue poster and decided on a different tack. Taking a tremendous breath, he hollered "Yale Wins Today!" and ran along the brick sidewalks as the yell boomed back at him from the walls. Green bags turned slowly and stared at him; the gray flannels glared. This time the people turned around and blocked his way; as he crossed the street, all the cars seemed to leap at him. There was some spirit after all. Vag jumped back quickly, but with a smile on his face. Hitching up his tie, he walked confidently back toward...
...candidates themselves grinned from poster portraits, but never in the flesh. President Truman was in Missouri, out of TV range, and Governor Dewey's Manhattan suite was placed off limits by the secret service men who had come up from Washington to guard the next President. As interviewees, that left Candidate Henry Wallace (who looked bitter and pompous), Candidate Norman Thomas (chipper and witty) and major & minor party officials...
Ingrid Bergman, whose eleven years of marriage (to a surgeon) stand as an example to Hollywood, made a little visit to Sweden-her first trip home in nine years. Romping about with husband Peter Lindstrom, she was caught in a snapshot (see cut) that would make a fine travel poster-or even a yeast...