Press: Funny Old Bat

Like the New York Evening Post, the august Times last week gave an editorial shudder at the picture of a corpse on an autopsy table, front-paged by Macfadden's blatant Graphic (TIME. Sept. 28). The Times charged the tabloid with "ghoulishness," revealed that the forbidden picture had been snapped through a window which "may explain, but it only aggravates, the offense."

In an editorial captioned OUR PHOTOGS ARE KEEN BOYS, on a page headed with TODAY'S BIBLE VERSEĀ— "God is Love," the Graphic replied: ". . . It was the least gruesome...

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