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...last week Managing Editor Douglas DeVeny Martin answered his telephone, heard an irate subscriber shout something about a picture of Franklin Roosevelt wearing a Hitler mustache. Mystified, Editor Martin looked over that day's editions, found a wirephoto of the President with a vague shadow on his upper lip that might have been mistaken for a penciled imitation of the Nazi Führer's brush...
...reporting, it was accomplished by sheer weight of man power. In Europe were some 10,000 reporters and cameramen last week. From the German side, pictures of tanks and motorized columns going into action, from the Allies pictures of bombed nuns and refugees flashed across the Atlantic by wirephoto. Only drawings were scarce, for cameramen have generally succeeded the able draftsmen who used to follow armies. One of the few artists who has acted as a reporter in the field is Bernard Lamotte whose paintings of France in arms TIME presents on the four following pages...
Such leavening agencies as have crept into A. P.'s service during the past ten years have been initiated chiefly by Mr. Cooper. Not without qualms, A. P. directors have approved comic strips, features, Wirephoto and a general broadening and lightening of the old straight news formula. This week, however, the modernizing efforts of Boss Cooper and the A. P. Board of Directors were stopped by a rank & file revolt. Led by smooth, earnest Arthur Hays Sulzberger, publisher...
Picture-conscious in a big way since its Wirephoto service was founded in 1935, the Associated Press hopefully submitted many a print to the second annual National News-Photo Contest run by Editor & Publisher, newsmen's trade weekly. Last week the magazine's judges announced the winners: first, John Lindsay for Working on the Levee, a rhythmic frieze of Negro convicts toting sandbags in February's flood; second, James Keen for Lowland Madonna, another flood scene of a young refugee nursing her baby; third, Edward O'Haire for J. P. Morgan Listens, a shot taken...
...attractive make-ups. When the victim happens to be an artist's model, and a photographer's artist model at that, everybody has just oodies of fun and he result often finds Mr. Justice Roberts staring unashamed into the coy, but deeply soulful eyes a trifle distorted by the wirephoto process, of a girl, whose spirit is forever fresh (copyright, 1937, by "Inside Detective" and "Front Page Detective Magazines...