DC -- Penn Qtr -- Natl Press Club (529 14th St NW):
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- NPC_190528_001.JPG: "Golly! I hope there will be some soup left for us"
"Relax"
Beetle Bailey, by Mort Walker
- NPC_190528_006.JPG: "A Word of Advice..."
Hazel, by Ted Key
- NPC_190528_017.JPG: Pottsy, by Jay Irving
- NPC_190528_020.JPG: Prince Valiant, by Hal Foster
- NPC_190528_023.JPG: Terry and the Pirates, by George Wunder
- NPC_190528_028.JPG: Tarzan, by Hogarth
- NPC_190528_037.JPG: Terry and the Pirates, by George Wunder
- NPC_190528_043.JPG: "Nuclear waste problem? I don't know about you, but I don't want my kids growing up in a world where there are no problems left to solve!"
Tony Auth
- NPC_190528_045.JPG: "MOSCOW -- The Carter Administration announced that today's release of American Francis J. Crawford from Soviet prison would help ease East-West tensi"
Jeff MacNeely
- NPC_190528_052.JPG: "OK! If Jimmy Carter wants to go over our heads by appealing directly to the people -- WE can play dirty, too!"
Berry's World, by Jim Berry
- NPC_190528_060.JPG: "Read almost all about it"
by John Fischetti
- NPC_190528_065.JPG: "Halloween, 1936"
by J.N. 'Ding' Darling
- NPC_190528_074.JPG: "Evolution of a Dictatorship"
by S.J. Ray
- NPC_190528_081.JPG: "Diogenes Looks for an Honorable Exit"
by Walter J. Enright
- NPC_190528_084.JPG: "Sure is a comforting feeling... I guess!"
"U.S. Superior to U.S.S.R. -- McNamara"
by William Canfield
- NPC_190528_099.JPG: "Doc, my bank ache seems so much relieved!"
"Anything I can do, doc, I'm just aroun' the corner."
by Clifford K. Berryman
- NPC_190528_111.JPG: "Worst Congress We Ever Had"
"Worst President We Ever Had"
"Who says both sides can't be right?"
by Gib Crockett
- NPC_190528_116.JPG: "Big Game Hunt"
"Madison Square Garden Rally"
"Ultra Conservatives"
by Bill Crawford
- NPC_190528_125.JPG: "The Grand Review"
" "Special" Employes" [sic]
"CCC"
"State-Allotments Boys"
"Battalions Receiving Federal Benefits"
"730,000 U.S. Employes" [sic]
"Govt. Spenders Battalion of Debt"
"Easy-Money Brigade"
"Five Billion Dollars"
"General Jim"
by Herbert Johnson
- NPC_190528_144.JPG: "The only one I see working out is Rockefeller!"
"GOP Spring Training Camp -- Keep Out"
by William Canfield
- NPC_190528_151.JPG: "Well, there's always tomorrow -- presumably"
by William Canfield
- NPC_190528_161.JPG: "Great shooting General -- You hit every front page!"
"Walker"
"John Birch Society"
by William Canfield
Edwin Walker
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edwin Anderson Walker (November 10, 1909 – October 31, 1993) -- known as Ted Walker -- was a United States Army officer who served in World War II and the Korean War. He became known for his staunch conservative political opinions and was criticized by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for promoting a personal political opinion while in uniform. Walker resigned his commission during 1959, but Eisenhower refused to accept his resignation and gave Walker a new command of the 24th Infantry Division in Augsburg, Germany. Walker again resigned his commission during 1961 after being publicly and formally admonished by the Joint Chiefs of Staff for allegedly referring to Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman as "pink" in print and for violating the Hatch Act of 1939 by attempting to influence the votes of his troops. President John F. Kennedy accepted his resignation, making Walker the only US general to resign during the 20th century.
During early 1962, Walker campaigned for Governor of Texas and lost the Democratic primary election to the eventual winner, John Connally. During October 1962, Walker was arrested for promoting riots at the University of Mississippi in protest against admitting a black student, James Meredith, into the all-white university. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy ordered Walker committed to a mental asylum for a 90-day evaluation in response to his role in the Ole Miss riot of 1962, but psychiatrist Thomas Szasz protested and Walker was released in five days. Attorney Robert Morris convinced a Mississippi grand jury not to indict Walker.
Walker was the target of an assassination attempt in his home on April 10, 1963, but escaped serious injury by the attack when a bullet fired from outside hit a window frame and fragmented. After its investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission concluded that Walker's assailant had been Lee Harvey Oswald.
- NPC_190528_168.JPG: "Disappointing news, gentlemen -- Dick can't make it!"
"Rockefeller -- Romney -- Scranton"
"Class of '64 Meets Here"
by William Canfield
- NPC_190528_178.JPG: "Good luck, and remember they can't hurt us!"
"Administration's Program -- Welcome to Congress"
by William Canfield
- NPC_190528_190.JPG: "Sir, He claims it's urgent!"
"Domestic program -- Foreign policies"
by William Canfield
- NPC_190626_06.JPG: "Have one on me, boys. I'll see you after work."
To the gang in the National Press Club tap room.
Chester Gould
- NPC_190626_08.JPG: "Hyar's to th' shif'less skonks at the Nash'nul Pressin' Club"
With every good wish,
Fred Lasswell
1995
- NPC_190626_13.JPG: Jeff MacNelly
- NPC_190626_15.JPG: "Wow, Roz. It must be really exciting to run the official newspaper hangout!"
"Sure is."
"Especially if you get excited by cranky old geezers who are allergic to tipping..."
Jeff MacNelly
- NPC_190626_19.JPG: American Routines
Matt Davies
- NPC_190626_20.JPG: "My pension fund faced a choice: divest from fossil fuels, or provide me with a comfortable retirement."
Matt Davies
- NPC_190626_23.JPG: "Wrong robe, Judge Kavanaugh."
Matt Davies
- NPC_190626_26.JPG: The Washington Emolument
Matt Davies
- NPC_190626_29.JPG: "The king will address the border situation"
"The incursion of dissidents into the sovereignty is paramount to escalated hostilities..."
"What does that mean?"
"That means there are reporters present"
Brant Parker
- NPC_190626_31.JPG: "Up next, we terrify you with a terrorism story, alarm you with a West Nile Virus update, scare you silly with our stock report, then horrify you with another child kidnapping case!"
Bob Gorrell
- NPC_190626_34.JPG: "I'll tell you what's wrong with this club! We've got too many old goats running it! We need young guys that pitch in an' do things! Loosen up the joint! Put a little life in it! Put on shows, an' stuff like that..."
"Yeah! Raisin' the dues on us! Why don't they put in slot machines like I always sez? That'd get dough."
"Listen to who's talking about work. The only thing he's ever done is get himself posted for delinquent dues."
"Where were they when we had the meeting last night? Right where they are now. Too lazy to take the elevator to the next floor."
"They think the club minutes has something to do with the time the bar opens and closes..."
"Listening to the barroom club directors. Thanx and a tip of the Hatlo millinery to Chas. L. Dickason, Jr., 241 Second St., Columbia, Penna."
Jimmy Hatlo
- NPC_190626_37.JPG: Flashbacks
by Patrick M. Reynolds
Covering the Capital
- NPC_191002_01.JPG: Del Pett
- NPC_191002_04.JPG: "Hyar's to th' shif'less skonks at the Nash'nul Pressin' Club"
With every good wish,
Fred Lasswell
1995
- NPC_191002_08.JPG: Jeff MacNelly
- NPC_191002_11.JPG: American Routines
Matt Davies
- NPC_191002_15.JPG: The Washington Emolument
Matt Davies
- NPC_191002_19.JPG: "My pension fund faced a choice: divest from fossil fuels, or provide me with a comfortable retirement."
Matt Davies
- NPC_191002_22.JPG: "Wrong robe, Judge Kavanaugh."
Matt Davies
- NPC_191002_26.JPG: "I'll tell you what's wrong with this club! We've got too many old goats running it! We need young guys that pitch in an' do things! Loosen up the joint! Put a little life in it! Put on shows, an' stuff like that..."
"Yeah! Raisin' the dues on us! Why don't they put in slot machines like I always sez? That'd get dough."
"Listen to who's talking about work. The only thing he's ever done is get himself posted for delinquent dues."
"Where were they when we had the meeting last night? Right where they are now. Too lazy to take the elevator to the next floor."
"They think the club minutes has something to do with the time the bar opens and closes..."
"Listening to the barroom club directors. Thanx and a tip of the Hatlo millinery to Chas. L. Dickason, Jr., 241 Second St., Columbia, Penna."
Jimmy Hatlo
- NPC_191002_29.JPG: Covering the Capital
Flashbacks
by Patrick M. Reynolds
- NPC_191002_32.JPG: Our National Interest
Flashbacks
by Patrick M. Reynolds
- NPC_191002_35.JPG: Herblock
The Herb Block Foundation
Matt Davies, Newsday
2019 Winner in Excellence in Editorial Cartooning
- NPC_191002_38.JPG: Charles Dunn
- NPC_191023_079.JPG: The Red Feather
Grandma Moses contributed this painting to the United Way in 1948. At age 93, she was guest of honor at the Community Chest's Campaign Kickoff at Troy, New York.
- NPC_191024_001.JPG: Potsy
by Jay Irving
- NPC_191024_006.JPG: Prince Valiant
by Hal Foster
- NPC_191024_018.JPG: Terry and the Pirates
by George Wunder
- NPC_191024_027.JPG: Tarzan
by Burne Hogarth
- NPC_191024_035.JPG: Hello David -- Good luck, but I hope you never realize your ambition to become a war correspondent, for I hope there isn't another war in your time. Best of all!
Ernie Pyle
- NPC_191024_037.JPG: Ernie Pyle
- NPC_191024_040.JPG: This is IE SHIMA, where ERNIE PYLE was killed by a sniper, April 18, 1945. Soon after, a friend of NPC, J. SHELDON LEWIS, flew over the island and took this picture.
- NPC_191024_049.JPG: Note the commemorative envelope includes
* Indiana 1900 (birthplace)
* National Press Club
* Typewriter
* Ie Shima (location where killed)
- NPC_191024_057.JPG: Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
-- Joseph Pulitzer
Presented to the National Press Club bu the Graduate School of Journalist of Columbia University in commemoration of the schools' fiftieth anniversary.
- NPC_191024_062.JPG: Terry and the Pirates
by George Wunder
- NPC_191024_078.JPG: To the National Press Club
Washington, D.C.
by the Provincial Tourist Board
Florence, Italy
In appreciation of support during the November, 1966 flood disaster
- NPC_191024_122.JPG: Mats
On this and adjacent walls are displayed historic front pages of major American newspapers, formed from preserved, laquered fiber mats originally used in the hot-metal process to cast the curved, lead plates for high-speed rotary presses.
- NPC_191115_11.JPG: Truman Piano
During World War II, the National Press Club hosted Saturday canteens for all Allied military personnel in the Washington area. Thousands of enlisted men were treated to hot dogs, beer, popcorn and the best entertainment available. "No brass" was the rule, but members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and government officials frequently were welcomed by Club members and the Club's American Legion Post. On one such memorable occasion in February, 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman, a dedicated amateur musician, was joined at (or, more specifically, on) this piano at the canteen by movie starlet Lauren Bacall. The resulting photograph appeared in Life magazine on May 7, 1945, and was reprinted so often it became known as one of the most published photos in journalistic history.
- NPC_191115_14.JPG: Victor Borge at the Truman Piano, July 31, 1987
- NPC_191115_29.JPG: Pres. Truman's Grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, plays the NPC piano made famous by the Truman-Bacall Life cover, while NPC member Steven C. Carson, Program Chair "Covering White House Families" enjoys the pre-program concert on April 26, 2006.
- NPC_191115_33.JPG: Pianist/Composer Marvin Hamlisch with Larry Lipman
by Marshall Cohen
- NPC_191115_39.JPG: Academy Award Winning actress Hillary Swank & NPC Vice President Rick Dunham re-enact the famous Bacall-Thomas picture.
- NPC_191115_42.JPG: Chuck Leavell
Renowned rock keyboardist for the Rolling Stones and one of the nation's leading forest conservationists
October 3, 2005
by John Metelsky
- NPC_191115_47.JPG: Offset Plates
The historic front pages offset plates on display at the National Press Club represent the most common, advanced method of printing newspapers. As a form of lithography, offset printing is distinguished from letter-press of relief printing represented by the earlier stereotype mats on display in the main lobby.
In offset lithography, a newspaper page is composed, assembled, and photographed full-size. The negative is exposed to light over a chemically-treated, light-sensitive metal plate. Wherever light strikes, a surface is created to which ink with adhere.
The prepared offset plate, wrapped around a press cylinder, is inked and then transfers, i.e. off-sets, the ink onto a rubber blanker, which prints the page.
Because it requires far less pressure than letter-press printing, offset reproduction allows for increased production speeds, improved reproduction of fine tones, and more efficient full-color printing.
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